NEWS IN GHANA

Gender ministry holds stakeholder consultative forum on adoption, foster care regulation   As part of measures to ensure greater protection for children   in the country especially in the area of alternative care, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has held a stakeholder consultative forum aimed at reforming and strengthening adoption and foster care processes in the country. Nana Oye Lithur,Minister of Gender,Children and Social Protection interacting with the media   According to the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, the forum seeks “to collaboratively engage stakeholders on alternative care reforms and to develop innovative strategies that ensure the reform process contributes to the development needs of all children and our great nation”. Ghana has been ranked among the top twenty countries with the highest rates of inter-country adoptions over the years raising great concerns. A situation...

Africa Worldview launches biggest online educational platform in Ghana As part of efforts to enhance teaching and learning in the country and beyond, Africa Worldview Limited, a leading Ghanaian research and knowledge-based IT firm has introduced an online educational platform dubbed “Smart StudyKit” which seeks to offer  students, teachers and school administrators the easy way to learn online via Web and Mobile Applications.  C.O.O of Africa Worldview Limited, Kojo Impraim According to Chief Operating Officer of Africa World View Ltd., Kojo Impraim the product seeks to facilitate easier, interactive, lively and comprehensive teaching and learning at Junior and Senior School levels. It also seeks to leverage access to quality education for both regular and remedial students offering them the opportunity to determine their learning pace and not the reverse where the teacher decides the pace. “The advantage is that you are able to learn and comple...

Child labour: the cankerworm depriving Ghana of her future  “I’d to quit schooling last year since my mother can no longer afford to pay my fees. She was recently thrown out of a rented apartment we are living in which cost GH₵ 800.00 simply because she can’t afford to pay for the rent. This has left me with no choice than to sell ice cream to raise money to support her including myself. In a day I’m able to make a meager amount of GH₵ 17.00 sometimes a little lower,” said a 12-year old little Kojo who lives in Mankessim. Kojo, the ice cream seller in Mankessim  “I was born into a family of eight. My mother is poor and cannot afford to send me to school therefore I resort to selling pure water on daily basis in order to support my mother take care of myself including my siblings. On a daily basis, I’m able to make GH₵ 3.00 out of sales. It is very difficult for me living this way but I can’t stop,” said Joe, a 6 year- old boy who hails from Cape Coast, but resides ...

Assistant Director of Engage Now Africa, David Kofi Awusi says deception is the major technique employed by child traffickers to trap victims. He made this known at a forum in the Mankessim Township located in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. The sensitization and educative forum which comes under the theme: “Children must be in School, not working” was an initiative of his outfit which is an international NGO committed to ending modern slavery and poverty in Ghana and Africa as a whole. The purpose of the forum was to educate Ghanaians on the tricks and strategies that traffickers use in trafficking children in Ghana and elsewhere in the world. It also seeks to launch the presence of Engage Now Africa within the district with tools like education, prevention and advocacy as its three main pillars to empower people against child trafficking and its menace. Modern slavery also known as child trafficking, refers to the recruitment, ...