Social welfare director calls for proper care for children
The Agona West Municipal Director of the Social Welfare Department, Mr Robert Baah, has advised parents to provide proper care for their children.
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He also advised parents to desist from using their children to engage in work that could negatively affect their health and education.
He noted that children were gifts from God and that parents must ensure that they provided them with their physical and educational needs, so that they could grow to achieve their aspirations.
Mr Baah gave the advice while addressing a durbar organised to commemorate this year’s district celebration of World Day Against Child Labour, held at Edukrom in the Agona West Municipality in the Central Region.
It was held on the theme, “Combating child labour in Ghana through effective social protection''.
Film about child labour
As part of the durbar, a film about child labour and the need to provide education to children, dubbed ‘’Mmofra - Oman yi daakye’’, which literally means children are the nation’s future, was shown to the gathering.
He said it was totally unacceptable for parents to force their children to engage in work that would prevent them from going to school, stressing that parents needed to ensure that their children were provided with sound education that would make them responsible adults in future.
He said the crusade was not against children helping their parents, but rather, the focus was on the use of children to engage in work that deprived them of education, health and some basic freedoms.
He said one of the surest ways of arresting poverty among people in the society was education, adding that parents must ensure that their children acquired education in order to alleviate poverty.
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He indicated further that parents had a responsibility to ensure that children were always protected due to their vulnerability so that they could aspire to greater heights in future.
Chief of the town
The Chief of the town, Nana Yaw Ekumah I, said the use of children to engage in exploitative labour, had affected the standard of education in the area, adding that the era where parents left properties behind for their children was over.
He explained that the only legacy parents could leave behind for their children was education.
He acknowledged that child labour had prevented a number of children from going to school, and called on the government and other stakeholders to help fight the menace.
The assembly member for Edukrom Electoral Area, Nana Eduful, lauded the assembly’s education against child labour as it would go a long way to prevent child labour in the area.