NGO Assists 200 Children At Gyahadze

THE Centre for Rural Enterprise Development (CRED), an NGO operating in the Effutu Municipal area, has rescued 200 children engaged in child labour and enrolled them in educational institutions within the past 17 months.

Anthony Nkrumah, Executive Director of the NGO, disclosed this in an interview with Ghana News Agency during the World Day Against Child Labour celebration at Effutu Ghahadze.

He said some of the children, aged between five and 17 years , were withdrawn from fishing activities at Yeji, Akosua village, Sankro, Walabeba and Ayepe.

Mr Nkrumah said 142 of them have been enrolled in basic schools and 58 are learning carpentry, tailoring, electronics, hairdressing and electrical technology.

Addressing a durbar to mark the occasion, Robert Andrew Ghunney, Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, expressed concern about the future leaders of the area engaging in child labour at the expense of their education, and warned parents against engaging their children in selling at the Winneba Junction which exposed them to various dangers including accidents.

Mr Ghunney appealed to parents to take advantage of the capitation grant and the school feeding programme to enrol their children in school to become useful citizens.