By Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNA
Ananekrom (Ash), Oct. 09, GNA – A total of 940 out-of-school children have been reintegrated back to formal school systems in the Asante-Akim North Municipality and Sekyere Afram Plains District of the Ashanti Region.
These children have received school bags, books, pens, pencils, sharpeners, erasers, and other essential learning materials to help them stay in school and avoid absenteeism.
The assistance is part of the Complementary Basic Education (CBE)/Second Chance project, being implemented by the School for Life (SfL) and its donor partner Luminos Fund, in the Ashanti Region.
The project aims to provide equal access to education for out-of-school children living in hard-to-reach communities and later reintegrate them into the formal education system.
Mr Aaron Odua-Mensah, SfL Field Coordinator, in-charge of the Project in the Ashanti Region, speaking at a graduation ceremony at Ananekrom, near Agogo, to officially enroll the children into the formal education system, said the project since its inception in the Ashanti region in 2021, had successfully reintegrated 2,483 out-of-school children back to school, and provided them with educational logistics and classrooms.
The beneficiary children are from Asante-Akim North Municipality, Bosome Freho, and Sekyere Afram Plains Districts.
Mr. Odua-Mensah petitioned the government, stakeholders, and communities not to renege on their support towards quality education.
They should continue to support the CBE classrooms by infusing them into their monitoring plans, especially when the project was at its peak implementation stage in the Sekyere South and Sekyere Afram Plains Districts.
Mr. Lawrence Dinko, Head of Supervision at the Municipal Education Unit of Asante Akim North, urged organizations to emulate such gestures.
This would complement the government’s educational efforts and ensure that no child of school age was left behind.
He appealed to the School for Life and its donor to do more and provide the reintegrated learners without uniforms with school attires to retain them in the various institutions.
Mr. Ben Aduri, Asante-Akim North Municipal Complementary Education Agency Officer, encouraged the new school children to take their studies seriously once they were in school.
GNA