{"id":451563,"date":"2011-07-01T09:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/ghana-school-going-children-still-at-home-from-edmond-gyebi-tamale\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:13:44","slug":"ghana-school-going-children-still-at-home-from-edmond-gyebi-tamale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/ghana-school-going-children-still-at-home-from-edmond-gyebi-tamale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: School-Going Children Still At Home – From Edmond Gyebi, Tamale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 July 2011<\/p>\n

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In spite of numerous interventions by governments to ensure quality basic education for all Ghanaian children, the majority of children of school-going age in some parts of the Northern Region are still not in school.<\/p>\n

Most of the children, especially, the girls, are either pushed into early marriages, kayayei (head porters) or engaged by their parents on the farm, whilst the boys herd cattle.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that children below fifteen years constitute over 48 percent of the total population of the Northern Region, hence any attempt by their parents or the communities to toy with their education would further widen the scope of poverty in the region.<\/p>\n

Even though they are expected to become the future leaders of this country, a large number of these children are still not in school for no good reasons.<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, the Right To Play, a child-centered international non-governmental organisation (NGO) operating in the three northern regions, has taken steps to ensure that all children of school-going age in their operational areas are enrolled in school.<\/p>\n

The Right To Play, currently, operates in about 50 communities in four districts in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions. The NGO is using all forms of play activities including drama, talent hunt and football competitions to effect changes in the behaviour and development of its target groups.<\/p>\n

At Tingoli, a deprived community in the Tolon-Kumbungu District of the Northern Region, the Right To Play used their play activities and football competition between students of the Tingoli R\/C Primary School, and other children in the community who are not in school, as means of advocating and encouraging parents to enroll their children.<\/p>\n

The objective was also to encourage the out of school children especially, to enroll in school. Shortly after the football match, a mini-durbar was organised by the NGO to sensitise the community, especially the chief, opinion and religious leaders, as well as parents, on the need to prioritise their children’s education, especially the girl child.<\/p>\n

The Northern File gathered that young girls in the Tingoli community see early marriage as the surest way of removing themselves and their parents from poverty, to the total neglect of their education.<\/p>\n

Some of the parents this reporter questioned on why they were not interested in sending their children to school sang one song; “We don’t have money to pay school fees, buy school uniforms and books.”<\/p>\n

Some of them claimed they were not aware of the government’s interventions of Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE), free school uniforms, books, and the capitation grant.<\/p>\n

However, the Assistant Project Officer of the Right To Play, Ms. Dunee Emma Evita, addressing the mini-durbar, took time to explain to the community leaders and their children the importance of education, and how it could contribute to the development of the area.<\/p>\n

According to Ms Evita, it was totally irrelevant for any parent to use the issue of poverty as the basis for not sending their children to school.<\/p>\n

She noted that the government and other partners like Right To Play had committed so much resources into the educational sector, and also embarked on massive advocacy campaign towards encouraging the populace to embrace education at all levels.<\/p>\n

The Assistant Project Officer emphasised that it would be a great disincentive to any community that would allow its people or children to reject education for kayayei work or early marriage.<\/p>\n

However, the Area Circuit Supervisor for the Ghana Education Service, Mr. Ernest Tia Chimsi, and Madam Ayishetu Adam, Sports Coordinator for the District, also added their voice to the call by Right To Play to encourage parents to take advantage of the numerous government educational interventions to propel the community into a better future.<\/p>\n

Conversely, two set of football jerseys and footballs were presented to the teams for continuous campaigns to encourage children in the community to enroll. A similar project was also launched in Savelugu simultaneously by the Right To Play, to also encourage children there to enroll in school.<\/p>\n

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