55,000 school dropouts to benefit from government’s CBE programme

The Government of Ghana with technical and financial support from the School for Life (SfL) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) will from this September enroll 55,000 school dropouts into a Complementary Basic Education (CBE) Programme which began last year. This follows a successful implementation of the first phase of the CBE programme which saw some 24,700 school dropouts out of an initial target of 25,000 benefiting from it. The beneficiaries came from 34 districts in 4 regions. A Deputy Manager of SfL in charge of Gender and Advocacy, Mrs. Lorentia Abakisi Dakura, announced this at the second quarterly media review meeting of the Ghanaian Developing Communities Association (GDCA) in Tamale.  The review meeting aims at taking stock of activities implemented under the second phase of the Empowerment for Life (E4L); a five year programme being implemented by the GDCA and the Youth Empowerment for Life with funding from the Ghana Venskabsgrupperne, a Danish partner. According to Mrs. Dakura, about 10,000 children from 9 districts in the Northern and Upper West Regions benefited from the first phase of the CBE programme. She says SfL envisaged that over 90 percent of them would be integrated into the formal education system when schools reopen in September 2014.  She called on parents and guardians in remote communities and urban centers to enroll their children in these schools. She also called on the government to provide budgetary support as well as enact a legislative instrument to support the continue running of the programme.

Source: Savananews