The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Free Zones Board, (GFZB) Michael Kofi Okyere Baafi has announced plans to remove street children from the streets of New Juaben Municipality to schools in his individual capacity.
Though statistics of the number of street children not available in the municipality, New Juaben Municipality is gaining notoriety in Streetism as many teenagers of both sexes are found engaging in all forms of petty economic activities on the streets and other deviance including child prostitution.
The situation has been blamed hugely on poverty triggered irresponsible parenting as some parents could not take care of their children, especially in cohabitation or non marital relationships forcing the teenage children to take solace in the streets at the peril of their education and health.
Speaking to Ultimate News after feasting and clothing about 800 children in Koforidua, the CEO of (GFZB), also a native of Koforidua-Srodae pledged his commitment to address the increasing streetism menace in the municipality starting off with community engagement from February 2018 with the affected Street Children to identify each other needs to provide help for those who are brilliant to go to school and do same for those that would require skill training.
He said President Akufo-Addo led government’s flagship Free Senior High School Policy which has come to stay aims among other addressing issues as such, hence will ensure that the youth in the municipality take advantage of the Policy to achieve their academic goals.
He added that, his short and long term vision is to develop the human resource capacity of the youth in the Municipality to position them to be employed and also churn out future leaders that will be part of nation building.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/Kojo Ansah
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The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Free Zones Board, (GFZB) Michael Kofi Okyere Baafi has announced plans to remove street children from the streets of New Juaben Municipality to schools in his individual capacity. Though statistics of the number of street children not available in the municipality, New Juaben Municipality is gaining notoriety in Streetism […]
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