A two-year project to take at least 500 out-of-school children off the streets of Greater Accra and Kumasi in order to improve their wellbeing and livelihoods has been launched in Accra.
The initiative by the Father Campbell SVD Foundation, a charitable non-profit organisation, targets adolescents, 15 to 17 years, to provide them with literacy, numeracy and essential life skills for a nine months period after which they would be transitioned into formal or technical and vocational institutions, as well as various apprenticeship programmes.
With funding support from the World Bank to the tune of $6 million, the project is being implemented under the Ministry of Education's (MOE) Ghana Education Outcomes Project (GEOP), which was launched in January last year, with the goal of returning 70,000 out-of-school children across the nation back to the classrooms.
Launching the initiative dubbed: 'GEOP Lot 7B,' the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mrs Mamle Andrews, said the intervention was to reduce streetism in Ghana and offer children a better standard of living.
