Committee condemns child labour at Bosuso

A School Management Committee (SMC) at Bosuso in the Fanteakwa District, has condemned the increasing rate at which parents allow school-going children to work for money.

They cart cocoa beans and food crops from the farms, and tap palm wine, instead of being encouraged to go to school.

The committee noted that many parents in the area behave out of illiteracy and ignorance.

Management of Divine Wisdom Preparatory School organized an educational forum to help increase enrollment in schools here.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the forum at Bosuso, Mr Awuah, Proprietor of the school, urged parents to instill discipline and virtues in their children, and also monitor and supervise their studies.

Mr. Awuah said education brings progress and development, and the establishment of the school was to help cater for the kids whose mothers normally sent them to farm and the market through the scorching sun, and to help train them.

He said with the establishment of the school, the habit of children loitering about in the mornings has stopped.