Educational fund for Osu Alata
Story: Jasmine Arku
My Child Your Child Foundation, an NGO that seeks for the welfare of women and children, in partnership with the Osu Wolaiste, Nii Odartey Akuma IV have launched an educational fund for the people of Osu Alata with a seed money of GHC 4000.
The fund which is established at the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) would be used to support parents to educate their children.
At the launch, books and life jackets valued GHC 1000 and GHC 2000 respectively were also donated to ten nursery schools and fishermen within the Osu Alata community respectively .
The purpose of the donation was to encourage the parents in the community to send their wards to school.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the director of My Child Your Child Foundation, Mr Samuel Yeboah Ocquaye said, the Osu Alata community comprised mostly of fishermen.
He said due to this, most of the children in the community were engaged in fishing or found loitering about during school hours.
He said these activities constituted child abuse and that, “for this reason we thought it necessary to educate the parents on the issue of child abuse and to encourage them to educate their children”.
He said the life jackets were donated to the fishermen so they could be safe at sea to prevent them from drowning during high tempests.
Mr Ocquaye expressed the hope that through their kind contribution and education, the society would be transformed so that parents and the community in general would value the essence of education.
My Child Your Child Foundation, an NGO that seeks for the welfare of women and children, in partnership with the Osu Wolaiste, Nii Odartey Akuma IV have launched an educational fund for the people of Osu Alata with a seed money of GHC 4000.
The fund which is established at the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) would be used to support parents to educate their children.
At the launch, books and life jackets valued GHC 1000 and GHC 2000 respectively were also donated to ten nursery schools and fishermen within the Osu Alata community respectively .
The purpose of the donation was to encourage the parents in the community to send their wards to school.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the director of My Child Your Child Foundation, Mr Samuel Yeboah Ocquaye said, the Osu Alata community comprised mostly of fishermen.
He said due to this, most of the children in the community were engaged in fishing or found loitering about during school hours.
He said these activities constituted child abuse and that, “for this reason we thought it necessary to educate the parents on the issue of child abuse and to encourage them to educate their children”.
He said the life jackets were donated to the fishermen so they could be safe at sea to prevent them from drowning during high tempests.
Mr Ocquaye expressed the hope that through their kind contribution and education, the society would be transformed so that parents and the community in general would value the essence of education.
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