1500 children from the Bongo, Nabdam and Talensi districts of the Upper East Region who were out of school have began a Complementary Basic Education program to prepare them to get into regular schools.
The Ghana Complementary Basic Education (CBE) program is a functional literacy program by the Government of Ghana and its development partners (DFID) for children between the ages of 8 and 14 years who are not in school to gain access to formal school through literacy classes in their own communities.
The intervention is in line with the Ghana Government’s effort to meet the MDG 2; which demands of countries to make it possible for children of school going age to have universal primary education.
It is implemented by civil society actors in partnership with communities with oversight responsibility by the District Education Offices, District Education Oversight Committees (DEOC) and District Assemblies. In the Upper East Region, Afrikids Ghana, a child rights centered NGO is government’s partner in the CBE program.
Richard Amoah works with Afrikids Ghana and is the coordinator for the complementary basic education program. He told A1 News that the program also aims at providing access to Complementary Basic Education (CBE) for 120,000 out-of-school children and to build Government’s capacity to take on this role. It will be implemented over a 3-year period (2013-2015).
In the Nabdam district where the program has already started, parents are giving their full support to the implementers of the program.
Nadam District Director of Education, Edward Azure, says the CBE program is a timely intervention for children in the district who are out of school.
By: Albert Sore | A1radioonline.com | Ghana
