{"id":275618,"date":"2011-02-06T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51235"},"modified":"2011-02-06T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T08:22:45","slug":"women-and-childrens-affairs-ministry-to-descend-on-fake-orphanages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/06\/women-and-childrens-affairs-ministry-to-descend-on-fake-orphanages\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Children\u2019s Affairs Ministry to descend on fake orphanages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Women and Children\u2019s Affairs in collaboration with the  Department of Social Welfare is to undertake a re-registration of  Orphanages in Ghana in a bid to eliminating unlicensed ones from the  system.<br \/>\nDeputy Minister in\u2013charge of the ministry, Hajia Gariba  Boya tells Asempa News the ministry was alarmed by news of orphanages  being used as transit points for child trafficking and the massive  abuses which occur in some orphanages.<br \/>\nIn less than a year, reports of massive abuses and crimes at some private and state-owned orphanages rocked the country.<br \/>\nChild  to child abuse at the Peace and Love Orphanage, massive child abuse by  caregivers at  the Osu Children\u2019s Home  and the use of Hohoe Christian  Orphanage as transit point for child trafficking are a few of many.<br \/>\nOrphanaid  Africa, an NGO, has already called on government to abolish orphanages  and resort to foster homes and other means of taking care of orphanages.<br \/>\nBut the Deputy Minister said the ministry is now aggressive on  the orphanages and have intensified their campaign to weed out the fake  ones.She said the ministry is woefully under resourced and called for  support in achieving that aim.<br \/>\nTouching on the provisional  results released by the Ghana Statistical Service on the 2010 housing  and population census, Hajia Gariba noted that now that it has become  clear that the women are more than men, women should take advantage of  it and be more active in national leadership.<br \/>\nStory by: Afia Amankwah Tamakloe\/Asempa FM\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Women and Children\u2019s Affairs in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare is to undertake a re-registration of Orphanages in Ghana in a bid to eliminating unlicensed ones from the system. 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