By Patrick Obeng, GNA
Senya Beraku (C/R), Jan. 3, GNA - The Global Street Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), is to establish a vocational institute for selected street children in the Greater Accra Region.
The programme, which would be extended to the other regions, is to help reduce street children in the country and also make them self-reliant.
Mr Ebenezer Okai Chief Executive Officer of the NGO disclosed this when the foundation donated items worth GH?6,500.00 to Exceed Community, an orphanage, at Bonsuoku, near Senya Beraku, in the Central Region on Wednesday.
The items include clothes, toiletries, soft drinks, children’s wear, shoes, bags of rice and learning materials.
Mr Okai said the NGO had been offering support to the less privileged in the society over the years, and that, the aim of the foundation was to make Ghana free of street children by offering them a vocation.
‘Statistics show that about 60,000 children are living in the streets of the country and would take the support of all to clear them from the streets’, he said.
Mr Okai urged parents to take good care of their wards so that they would grow up to become useful citizens and contribute to national development.
Mr Samuel Kingsley Barnes, Administrator of Exceed Community, said some of the challenges facing the community include water, feeding, as well as learning materials.
He said plans were far advanced for the community to establish a catering school on its campus to help ease the problem of traveling long distances to send the inmates to school.
Mr Barnes thanked the NGO for the support and called on other NGOs and benevolent organisations to come to their aid.
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