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Sekyere Afram Plains benefits from CBE project

Sekyere Afram Plains,one of the most deprived and hard-to-reach districts in the Ashanti Region, has been selected to benefit from the Comprehensive Basic Education (CBE) project, which has been providing opportunity for out-of-school children to enrol in the formal education system.

Date Created : 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Samuel Akumatey

The project is being implemented with assistance from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

It seeks to equip out-of-school children between the ages of eight and 14, with literacy, numeracy and life skills, to aid them to access primary education.

Mr Samuel Ofori Boakye, Prorgamme Coordinator of the Link Community Development, an NGO, which is implementing the project in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES), told journalists in Kumasi,classes are being run in 22 communities in the district.

They have opened 23 CBE classes, with each class having 23 pupils, who are taught by facilitators for a period of nine months, in their own mother tongue.

Mr. Boakye said the goal was to create space for disadvantaged rural poor children to go through basic education.

It was also meant to assist increase gender equality and participation in basic education.

He said they were putting premium on the quality of teaching and learning outcomes in the CBE learning centres and the strengthening of community ownership and management of project.

Mr. Boakye indicated that the five-year project, which commenced in 2013 would end in September 2018.

It was being implemented in 43 districts across five regions Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Brong-Ahafo and Ashanti.

He said in excess of 200,000 children had been targeted to benefit and transition to the formal education system.

Madam Amina Achiaa, acting District Director of Education for the Sekyere Afram Plains, said the project was helping to increase basic school infrastructure, access and school enrolment in the district.

She underlined the need to do more to encourage children in deprived and difficult-to-reach to enroll in school.