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Over 11,000 out-of-school children enrolled for CBE programme

Over 11,000 out-of-school children enrolled for CBE programme

A total of 11,350 out-of-school children from seven districts in the Northern Region have been enrolled for the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme in October this year.

The CBE programme is a functional literacy programme initiated by the government, in partnership with the United Kingdom (UK) Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), to support children between the ages of eight and 14 who have not attended school.

The learners, from the Yendi Municipality, Central Gonja, Zabzugu, Saboba, Mion, Kumbungu and Sagnarigu districts will access literacy classes by going through numeracy and reading (literacy) classes for nine months, with the instructors teaching the learners in their mother tongue after which they would join the formal school system in the 2016/2017 academic year.

CBE programme facilitators

The Yendi Municipal Coordinator of School for Life (SFL), Mr Peter Wajah, who disclosed this at the closing ceremony after a training programme for 90 CBE programme facilitators in Yendi last Wednesday, said the children were recruited from the seven operational areas of the SFL.

 The 21-day training programme was aimed at equipping the facilitators with the necessary skills to take the learners through the nine-month numeracy and literacy classes in their mother tongue in their communities.

According to Mr Wajah, SFL had been operating in the Northern Region since 1995 and indicated that its main focus had been the delivery of literacy classes based on the use of the mother tongue of learners.

The Human Resource Development Officer of the Yendi Municipal Education Directorate office, Madam Gladys Ramatu, who deputised for the Municipal Director of Education, Mr Nelson Aborigia, urged the facilitators to be dedicated to their work and be punctual for classes, and also give their best so that they would be considered for the next cycle.

 

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