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Nana Afrah Sika Mensah, the Deputy Coordinator at the Free Senior High School (SHS) Secretariat, has urged the nation to concentrate more on the policy\u2019s successes rather than its challenges.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging that there are issues such as food shortages in some schools, she argued that the benefits of the policy far outweighed the drawbacks.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Nii Larte Lartey on Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Citi FM <\/strong>on Monday, she emphasized that the policy had been a boon to children from underprivileged homes.<\/p>\n

She added that the positive aspects should be given more attention than the negatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cFree SHS has really helped us as a country and then maybe had it not been the Free SHS people like my siblings out there wouldn\u2019t get access to quality education. So even though we have challenges, we should rather make the positives outweigh the challenges we are facing as a secretariat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve given people access to education. People from the less endowed communities or people who are less privileged in the communities had it not been for Free SHS, they would not get the opportunities to foot bills for their wards,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n\n

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