THE Northern Regional Minister, Mr Stephen Nayina, has called on management of the Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA) to expand its School for Life (SfL) programme to ensure that more children in the rural communities are sent to school.
He stated that approximately, 800,000 children in the region were still not in school hence, the inability of the area to achieve targets in the Millennium Development Goal.
Mr Nayina made the call at the 25th annual general meeting (AGM) of the GDCA at Dalun in the Tolon-Kumbungu District.
The meeting was aimed, among other objectives, at deliberating on issues affecting the operations of the GDCA as well as promoting accountability in its work.
The minister encouraged the organisation to help “rope in more children in the SfL programme to enable them to read and write”.
He commended the GDCA for its efforts at developing the skills of more than 1,000 youths in the region as well as empowering women by providing them with micro-credit schemes to venture into income-generating activities.
The Chairman of the GDCA, Professor Abu-Bakr Al-Hassan, announced that a total of 25,000 children were now able to read and write as a result of the SfL intervention.
He further stated that 11,000 individuals, including women, had benefited from the various micro-credit programmes of the GDCA.
Prof. Al-Hassan said his outfit had spent GH¢170,000 under the Rights and Voice Initiative (RAVI) project to equip Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and non-governmental organisations to monitor the implementation of the Capitation Grant, the National Health Insurance Scheme on improving widowhood rites and communities’ participation in local governance.
The chairman mentioned rising inflation, the scaling down of its interventions, particularly the SfL programme and the poor nature of roads as the major challenges affecting the smooth implementation of interventions by the GDCA.
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