The Oti Regional Director of the Department of Children, Ms Ella Faith Ashong, has stressed the need for parents to live up to their parental responsibilities, emphasising the importance of positive parenting practices in preparing children adequately to face the future.
She therefore, called on stakeholders to strengthen partnership that would enhance child protection efforts, and pledged her outfit's commitment to support initiatives that would improve the lives of street-connected children in the region.
The Oti Regional Director was speaking at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Dambai branch of Chance for Children (CFC), a non-profit organisation in the Krachi-East municipality of the Oti Region.
Ms Ashong said he appreciated the activities of CFC in the region, which would definitely help in addressing streetism in the region and called for greater collaboration between the Department of Children and CFC to nurture and protect children to become responsible adults.