{"id":441056,"date":"2011-06-14T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/248-poor-persons-identified-for-financial-support\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:49:02","slug":"248-poor-persons-identified-for-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/248-poor-persons-identified-for-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"248 poor persons identified for financial support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"84.4188034188\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/general-news\/\" title=\"View all posts in General News\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> \u00bb 248 poor persons identified for financial support<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Tuesday, June 14, 2011 15:15 PM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p>At least 248 extremely poor persons in the Ho Municipal area have been identified for financial support under the Social Inclusion Transfer (SIT) of the Urban Poverty Reduction Programme (UPRP).<\/p>\n<p>They include orphans and vulnerable children, lactating mothers, People Living with HIV and AIDS and pregnant women from four zones in the Municipal area.<\/p>\n<p>They will be given between GH\u00a260 and GH\u00a2110 every three months.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Isaac Kodobisah, Ho Municipal Chief Executive who launched the Programme in Ho on Tuesday, expressed optimism that Ghana would achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving extreme poverty ahead of the 2015 time frame.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOur country is now a middle income country and with the oil find and the present prudent management of the economy, there is every indication that the country is on a forward march to become one of the strongest economies in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodobisah said Ghana\u2019s economy had seen a remarkable improvement over the last decade especially the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe poverty rate which was 52 per cent at the beginning of 1990s dropped to 28.5 per cent by 2006 according to the World Bank report,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodobisah said irrespective of that achievement, there still remained many more people who were extremely poor and could not afford a \u201csimple meal a day\u201d and needed support to contribute their quota towards national development.<\/p>\n<p>He said apart from pro-poor interventions such as the supply of free textbooks, school uniforms, capitation grant and the school feeding programme, the government was embarking upon massive infrastructure development of social services.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Joseph Acheampong, the Executive Director of the Social Investment Fund (SIF) in a speech read on his behalf, said SIT was to complement the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.<\/p>\n<p>He said the programme would offer social protection for the extremely poor whose potentials have been marginalized and looked on as drawbacks in society.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Acheampong said the Ho Municipal Assembly to position itself so it could own the programme when the UPRP ended its operations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/14\/248-poor-persons-identified-for-financial-support\/\" title=\"248 poor persons identified for financial support\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">248 poor persons identified for financial support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb General News \u00bb 248 poor persons identified for financial support Page last updated at Tuesday, June 14, 2011 15:15 PM \/\/ At least 248 extremely poor persons in the Ho Municipal area have been identified for financial support under the Social Inclusion Transfer (SIT) of the Urban Poverty Reduction Programme (UPRP). 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