EIGHTEEN thousand one hundred and forty households in 210 deprived communities in the Northern Region have been provided a total of GH¢544,200 under the second phase of the Emergency Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.
The beneficiary communities are in the East and West Mamprusi and Gonja Districts .
The Department of Social Welfare and the National Social Protection Unit of the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare organised the distribution of the resources.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Tamale, the Deputy Director of Child Rights Promotion and Protection of the Department of Social Welfare, Madam Joanna Mensah, said each household received GH¢30 as a relief package.
According to her, the package was meant to support the worst affected households due to the 2009 floods.
“We are looking at the very poor in emergency situations and to see how to bring immediate relief to them,” she stressed.
Madam Mensah explained that the funds were from the Government of Ghana, and that a monitoring and evaluation team had been put in place to identify those who would need to be rolled into the regular LEAP programme and the complementary services.
She said the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) collaborated with the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare and the Department of Social Welfare to introduce the programme.
Madam Mensah stressed the need for intensive public education and community engagement in discussions to make people understand the need for them to move upland along flood prone areas to avoid disasters.
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