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Parents asked to show interest in education of children

The Kadjebi District Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Madam Grace Lorlor Abla Bonuedi, has appealed to parents to show interest in the education of their children, especially the girl-child, since their future depends on the kind of education they received.

Madam Bonuedi said education was a right and not a privilege and, therefore, called on parents to send their children to school.

She maintained that, giving quality education to girls could help bridge the gap of poverty and also enable them to voice their views on important national issues and thereby deepen the country’s infant democracy.

She made the appeal at a programme at Kadjebi in the Volta Region to mark the celebration of this year’s International Day of the Girl-Child, that involved pupils drawn from 11 basic schools in the district.

 

Rights and welfare of the girl-child

Madam Bonuedi said the annual celebration of the International Day of the Girl-Child, which comes off on October 11 every year, was an international observance day declared by the United Nations; and it is also called the Day of the Girl Child, with the mandate to promote and protect the rights and welfare of the girl-child. 

The Kadjebi District Office of Ghana Education Service (GES) marked the event on the theme: “Girls’ Speak Out,”  to highlight the rights and welfare of the girl-child.

Madam Bonuedi called on the citizens to help promote and protect the welfare of the girl-child to enable them to achieve their full potentials.

She also appealed to parents to provide their children with basic needs to prevent them from falling prey to sexual abuse, harassments and other social vices.

 

Scholarship for girls

The Kadjebi District Girls’ Education Officer, Madam Dorcas Ama Obeng, appealed to the government to establish scholarship schemes for brilliant, needy girls to encourage them to remain in school.

She said the present situation where some girls drop out of school as a result of financial difficulty was not the best and needed to be changed.

She indicated that the Girl-Child Education Unit of the GES was worried about the alarming rate of teenage pregnancy in the district and thus, called on parents to keep a close eye on their daughters.

The Kadjebi District Chief Executive, Mr Jacob Alebinde Asogonnde, said the district assembly would continue to support girl-child programmes in the district and appealed to parents to channel all their meagre resources in educating the girl-child.

He also called on the teachers to eschew absenteeism, laziness and other deviant behaviours to help improve the standard of education in the district.

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