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Parents urged to take advantage of pro-poor programmes
Sekondi, Jan. 3, GNA - Mr. John Hackman, the Western
Regional Director of the Department of Children, on
Wednesday called on parents to take advantage of the
government's pro-poor programmes for the benefit of their
children.
Speaking to the GNA in an interview, Mr. Hackman said
children could not directly assess pro-poor programmes such
as the Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme and the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) unless parents
enrolled them in school and register them for the NHIS.
He said many children were not benefiting from the
Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme and the NHIS
because their parents have not sent them to school and have
not registered with the scheme.
Mr. Hackman urged parents to impress upon their unemployed
children to take advantage of the Youth Employment Programme.
He said kindergarten education would become part of the
basic education system next academic year but many basic
schools lack classrooms for facilities as well as JSS
workshops.
Mr. Hackman appealed to district assemblies to include
facilities for kindergartens and workshops for JSS when
putting up structures for basic schools.
GNA
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