The SOS Children’s Villages, through the implementation of the Family Strengthening Project (FSP), has supported 1,110 vulnerable children from 337 families across the country with technical and vocational training skills to fend for themselves.
It has also empowered many youths, who have completed various TVET programmes, with business start-up tools to help them establish their businesses.
The Family Strengthening Project is also providing child protection structures to support community public schools through capacity building of teachers, construction of water and sanitation facilities as well as the provision of teaching and learning materials to improve teaching and learning in schools.
Mr Bernard Amoako, Programme Director of SOS Children’s Villages, made this known at the commissioning and handing over of two water projects to the Ejisu Experimental and Esianimpong M/A basic schools in the Ejisu municipality.
The WASH facilities were constructed as part of the Family Strengthening Project, which is being implemented in the municipality.
Mr Amoako said quality education, especially for vulnerable children, was one of the core mandates of SOS Children’s Villages and the provision of potable water for children was part of its commitment of attaining the Sustainable Development Goal (SDF) goal four (4).
That is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, as well as the SDG goal six (6), which ensures access to water and sanitation for all.
Mr. Amoako pointed out that the water and sanitation facilities would help improve hygiene not only in the beneficiary schools but for the inhabitants of the communities as well.
Mr. Joseph Kudjo Yane, Project Director, said the project had directly provided support for 6,352 pupils and 266 teachers in 15 schools in the Ejisu and Juaben Municipalities since 2019.
He pledged the SOS Children’s Villages commitment to partner the government to provide the needed support such as classroom blocks and other infrastructure to deprived schools to ensure that quality education delivery was achieved.
Mr Edward Agyei and Madam Bridget Yaw, Head teachers of Esianimpomg M/A basic school and Ejiso Experimental School respectively, appealed to other benevolent organisations to come to the aid of their schools to improve infrastructure.
Mr. Agyei said the Asianimpong Basic School, which was established in the 1960s and now has a pupil population of 435, had only 123 tables and chairs.
He said the classroom buildings were very old and needed rehabilitation to improve their conditions and enhance teaching and learning in the school.
Source: GNA
