Ms. Christian Amarchey, Brong Ahafo Regional Programme Manager of Action Aid Ghana, has advised parents to support the interventions aimed at mobilising out of school children to receive at least basic education.
She noted that children with better education were able to make better progress in life and could become better future leaders.
Ms. Amarchey gave the advice at the graduation of 475 children, from 13 communities in the Tain District of Brong Ahafo Region, who had completed nine months of basic education at Nsawkaw.
The programme forms part of the Ministry of Education Project to enroll 120,000 out of school children, between eight and 14 years, to provide them with Functional Literacy Education in their mother tongue to enable them to enroll in the formal school system within three years.
Action Aid Ghana, the implementing agency, recruited 2,300 participants from four operational districts in the Region and the Nanumba North District in the Northern Region for the 2013/2014 Academic Year.
Ms. Amarchey expressed appreciation to the facilitators for their hard work and commitment during the period.
Only 24, out of the 500 children, dropped from the classes due to migration.
Ms. Amarchey announced that Action Aid Ghana had commenced the construction of a three-unit classroom block at Kwame Brentim, a farming community, to absorb the first batch of the graduates in and around the community.
She urged the assembly and Ghana Education Service (GES) to intensify supervision and monitoring of the classes and support them with the needed resources to work effectively.
Ms. Amarchey said beginning October 6, the project’s period had been extended with an additional 3,375 children and more facilitators from 13 communities in the four districts.
He therefore appealed to stakeholders, especially parents in the beneficiary communities, to assist the facilitators to enable them to improve on their performances.
