Kayera (E/R), Jan 18, – A total
of 2,040 bicycles have been distributed to school girls in four districts – Afram
Plains North, Afram Plains South, Krachi East and Nchumuru, under a project
launched to promote girl-child education in these areas.
Dubbed “Complementary Basic
Education (CBE) Program” it is being implemented by the Afram Plains
Development Organization, an NGO, with support from the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
Mr. Modoc Omoro Awudu Yakubu,
Executive Chairman of the Organization, said the goal was to get every girl
child, not in school, enrolled.
He expressed concern about the
situation where many children had to make daily round trip of about nine
kilometres to attend school and said the situation should not continue.
He added that every effort should
be made to ensure that education was made accessible to everybody, regardless
of the location.
He announced that 3,668 children
had been enrolled in school under the CBE Program and out of this figure, 2,040
were girls.
The bicycles, he noted, were
meant to aid the beneficiaries to get to school early and advised that they
took good care of them.
Madam Irene Ayenoh, the Afram
Plains North District Education Director, applauded the NGO and UNICEF for what
she labelled as “the wonderful gesture” and said it would boost efforts at
raising the quality of education.
The five-year CBE Program is
focusing priority effort on education promotion in deprived communities in the
Eastern and parts of the Volta Region.
GNA
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