TradeAid Integrated, a non-governmental organization, has held a sensitization workshop in the Bongo District to bring to the attention of stakeholders some gaps the organization said it has identified in its engagement with community members and their assessment of the Assembly Bye-laws.
The Director of TradeAid Integrated, Mr. Nicolas Apokerah, said that as the organization has envisaged building a society where poverty has been eradicated and the right to basic human needs is guaranteed, they had community engagement on pertinent issues that border on empowerment and development of women and children. As part of the engagement, it became clear that the district assembly bye-laws contained little or no information regarding child marriages, teenage pregnancies, women owning farmlands, policies on sustaining girl child education, and parental responsibility for the girl child, among many several others.
Mr. Apokerah, who underscored the need for the sensitization, said it was imperative to bring their findings to the very people who are at the center of the district assembly to consider enacting bye-laws to address the gaps identified.
The forum was attended by staff of the Bongo District Assembly, Assembly members, parents from some selected communities, officials from social welfare, staff of TradeAid Integrated, and many other notable institutions.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1Mhz|Samuel Adagom|Ghana
