The siting of more schools in the cocoa growing communities will help children of farmers to have uninterrupted education, says Mentoring and Supporting Rural Youth and Children (MASRYAC), an NGO.
The NGO says it has discovered that even where there are schools, they end at the primary level.
“Most of the areas do not have junior high schools, compelling the children to end their education at the primary level,” lamented Ms Comfort Tsaku, Executive Director of MASRYAC.
She was talking to the press at the recent week-long youth camp at Jasikan with the theme, ‘Raising champions’.
Such children, she noted often became cheap labour for their parents on their farms whilst some of the girls ended up with teenage pregnancies.
Ambitious children who want to go further, have to walk long distances daily to attend school in nearby towns, she said.
Ms Tsaku explained that the NGO had got support for children from such communities to continue their schooling.
She said so far, the Ghana Cocoa Board is sponsoring 13 bright and needy children from such places in tertiary institutions in the country.
Two others, Ms Tsaku said, were being sponsored by two philantropists.
She appealed to the Kadjebi District Assembly to build hostels in some of the big towns for such deprived and needy children of cocoa farmers.
She was grateful that the Kadjebi District Assembly had opened one such Junior High School at Kosamba, a village near Asato.
The NGO says it has discovered that even where there are schools, they end at the primary level.
“Most of the areas do not have junior high schools, compelling the children to end their education at the primary level,” lamented Ms Comfort Tsaku, Executive Director of MASRYAC.
She was talking to the press at the recent week-long youth camp at Jasikan with the theme, ‘Raising champions’.
Such children, she noted often became cheap labour for their parents on their farms whilst some of the girls ended up with teenage pregnancies.
Ambitious children who want to go further, have to walk long distances daily to attend school in nearby towns, she said.
Ms Tsaku explained that the NGO had got support for children from such communities to continue their schooling.
She said so far, the Ghana Cocoa Board is sponsoring 13 bright and needy children from such places in tertiary institutions in the country.
Two others, Ms Tsaku said, were being sponsored by two philantropists.
She appealed to the Kadjebi District Assembly to build hostels in some of the big towns for such deprived and needy children of cocoa farmers.
She was grateful that the Kadjebi District Assembly had opened one such Junior High School at Kosamba, a village near Asato.
