Tamale, Dec 16, GNA - Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), a child-centred international non-governmental organization, has held an end-of-year forum in Tamale to engage and interact with its stakeholders.
The event was also a way of presenting CCFC’s interventions and directions as well as achievements and challenges to its stakeholders and the public.
Mr George Baiden, Country Director of CCFC, said since 1996, CCFC had worked to complement the efforts of government in the Northern Region by focusing on areas such as education, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, livelihood empowerment and local capacity building.
Mr Baiden said CCFC believed that development intervention must be sustainable over a long period and had therefore been working with partners to help create a future of hope for children, families and communities by developing their skills and resources to overcome poverty and pursue justice.
He said CCFC as a child sponsorship organization had helped to provide over 60 school building and playgrounds with over 10,944 children enrolled and receiving support at various levels of education.
He said, this year, CCFC provided school blocks at Kpinchilla, Bongnayili and Zawgyuri in the region, which would increase over 1,000 school children's access to quality teaching and learning in early childhood care and primary education.
He added that "In the same vein to ensure that girls, who live far away from their schools get to school on time, 487 bicycles have been provided for children, 80 per cent of who are girls.”
Mr Baiden said in the last two years, CCFC assisted children and communities in various ways such as improvement of water systems using solar energy to tap and distribute water at Kpahikpaba, Wantugu, and Kasuliyili.
He said CCFC had commissioned a water system at Zarklorli in the Yendi Municipality, which had helped to unite two communities as well as provided a shared garden project for green vegetables in the dry season.
He added that Village Savings and Loans Association as well as Youth Savings and Loans Associations were also successfully introducing the youth to the culture of savings to help improve on their livelihoods.
He said in the health sector, CCFC through its Promoting Maternal newborn, Infant and child Sustainable Efforts (PROMISE) project was making strides as it was addressing issues of maternal and infant mortality at Savelugu, Soboba, and Nanumba North and South as well as contributing to improvement in service delivery .
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