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15th June, 2010
Plan Ghana Awards Scholarships To 25 Students
Plan Ghana has embarked on an advocacy campaign dubbed “learn without fear” to create a safer school environment for children in the Bawjiase area of the Central Region.
A 13-member steering committee headed by Nacyi Barfowa, Queen mother of Awutu Papase, was inaugurated to carry out the education on the harmful effects of child sexual abuse, which recent researches had revealed to be higher in the Awutu-Senya and Effutu Districts of the Central Region and the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.
Members of the committee comprise representatives of the traditional rulers, educationists, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and officials of some district assemblies.
Mr. Joseph Assan, Bawjiase Area Manager of Plan Ghana, inaugurating the committee at Fetteh Kakraba, near Awutu Beraku, said sub-committees would be formed in the Gomoa East and West, Agona East and West, and Effutu and Awutu-Senya to educate the people.
He said the research indicated that the major causes of child sexual abuses were household poverty, sexual pressure, lack of parental care and control, and peer pressure.
He said parents, community opinion leaders, and institutions such as the police, district assemblies, health workers and teachers, had been identified as the first point of contact when a child was sexually abused, and suggested that such persons needed to be trained on how to identify and handle all forms of child abuse.
ASP Florence Anaman, Awutu-Senya District Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit, said Ghanaians needed a pragmatic preventive approach to address child sexual abuse in the society.
The Omankrado of Feteh Kakraba, Nana Kwame Okyere, who chaired the programme, urged school children to be serious with their studies and stop watching television and pornographic films.
Earlier, school children from the area went on a March with placards to register their protest against child sexual abuse.
A 13-member steering committee headed by Nacyi Barfowa, Queen mother of Awutu Papase, was inaugurated to carry out the education on the harmful effects of child sexual abuse, which recent researches had revealed to be higher in the Awutu-Senya and Effutu Districts of the Central Region and the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.
Members of the committee comprise representatives of the traditional rulers, educationists, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and officials of some district assemblies.
Mr. Joseph Assan, Bawjiase Area Manager of Plan Ghana, inaugurating the committee at Fetteh Kakraba, near Awutu Beraku, said sub-committees would be formed in the Gomoa East and West, Agona East and West, and Effutu and Awutu-Senya to educate the people.
He said the research indicated that the major causes of child sexual abuses were household poverty, sexual pressure, lack of parental care and control, and peer pressure.
He said parents, community opinion leaders, and institutions such as the police, district assemblies, health workers and teachers, had been identified as the first point of contact when a child was sexually abused, and suggested that such persons needed to be trained on how to identify and handle all forms of child abuse.
ASP Florence Anaman, Awutu-Senya District Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit, said Ghanaians needed a pragmatic preventive approach to address child sexual abuse in the society.
The Omankrado of Feteh Kakraba, Nana Kwame Okyere, who chaired the programme, urged school children to be serious with their studies and stop watching television and pornographic films.
Earlier, school children from the area went on a March with placards to register their protest against child sexual abuse.
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