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World Toilet Day Marked

Friday, November 20, 2009
GHANAIANS yesterday joined the rest of the world to celebrate World Toilet Day under the theme Stop open defecation Use Toilets World Toilet Day is set aside by the World Toilet Organisation to demand proper sanitation for people all over the world The Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development joined people in Accr ... Read more

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ELAC supports Joy FM Needy Fund

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Enterprise Insurance Limited ELAC has presented a cheque for to support the Joy Needy Fund The Joy Needy Fund is a Joy support programme to assist the poor and disadvantaged in society It is funded by donations from listeners of Joy FM and philanthropists touched by the plight of the needy The fund recently made availabl ... Read more

Lawyer calls on Social Welfare…to provide accommodation for juvenile

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The fate of ayear old is lurking as he is currently wallowing in police cells even though a Tema Circuit Court has granted him bail on alleged charge of drug peddling The juvenile who hails from Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region is still with the Tema Railway Police station awaiting the fulfillment of a surety which he could not ge ... Read more

President Mills calls for national moral revival

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
President John Atta Mills called for a national moral revival and emphasized the need for Ghanaians to pursue things of lasting benefits We should resolve to chart a new life and set good examples he said at the Osu Castle in Accra when the newly appointed Head of the Catholic Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Peter Cardinal Appia ... Read more

GSFP objectives not been achieved - Minister

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Deputy Volta Regional Minister Col Cyril Necku has noted that the objectives of the Ghana School Feeding Programme GSFP have not been achievedHe stressed that the success of the programme requires the active participation of all stakeholdersThe Deputy Minister made the point at a sensitization forum for key regional and district ... Read more

Largest Family Planning Conference opens

Monday, November 16, 2009
Over leading policymakers researchers academics and health professionals from countries on Sunday started a meeting in Kampala Uganda to share the latest scientific findings and refocus the worlds attention on family plannings contribution to development The International Conference on Family Planning Research and Best Pr ... Read more

Veep asks youth to seek employment through food production

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Kintampo BA Nov GNA Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday urged the youth to take advantage of the governments Youth in Agriculture Programme to earn a living Mr Mahama who was addressing this years annual Kurubi festival of the chiefs and people of the Wangara Community in Ghana at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region ... Read more

Two Blind Associations in Ghana to merge

Friday, November 13, 2009
The Ghana Association of the Blind and the Ghana Society for the Blind are to merge by next year The National Director of the Association Peter Obeng Asamoah who disclosed this at the third Biennial Volta Regional Convention in Ho noted that the merger has become necessary due to the similarity of the aspirations and goals of the two groups ... Read more

Protect Us From Abuse - Kids Appeal To MPs

Friday, November 13, 2009
Ghanaian children have had the rare occasion to quiz Parliamentarians on measures they had put in place to protect them from abuseThey pointed out that even though Ghana was the first country to ratify the Convention on the Right of the Child children in th ... Read more

Pupils appeal to President Mills

Friday, November 13, 2009
Two pupils of the Asare Oppong School Complex Rosemary Konotey and Samuel Assayaw who represented the Western Region at the th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at Dodowa near Accra have appealed to the President Mills to help deal with issues of female genital mutilation He should also extend the scho ... Read more

Akufo-Addo gives hope to the Physically Disabled

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Normal false false false ENUS XNONE XNONE The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party Nana Addo Dankwa AkufoAddo has asked the disabled in society to stop seeing themselves as incapable of standing up to the challenges of the st century In a speech read on his behalf by Kwodwo Owusu Afriyie in Kumasi at ... Read more

Court orders abortion for girl, 15

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
A court has ordered that a yearold girl who was defiled by two friends and got pregnant should undergo a legal abortion The Circuit Court at Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region presided over by Mr Osei Kwame gave the order with the consent of the girls parents to enable her to continue her education she is in primary sixThe two friend ... Read more

Community Foundations: A Tool for Engaging Youth in Community Driven Development

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Community Driven Development CDD approaches present an effective means to involve young people in localdevelopment decisionmaking giving them voice and influencing power with benefits for themselves and theircommunities This note highlights a range of key learning points emerging from years of international experiencewith Youth Ba ... Read more
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