{"id":326508,"date":"2017-06-08T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326508"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:10:11","slug":"adaklu-mp-ngos-rescue-pupils-from-makeshift-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/adaklu-mp-ngos-rescue-pupils-from-makeshift-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaklu MP, NGOs rescue pupils from makeshift structure"},"content":{"rendered":"
But for the intervention of the Member of Parliament for Adaklu Constituency in the Volta Region, Kwame Agbodza, with the support of some Non-Governmental Organizations, over 200 children in one of the remotest parts of Adaklu, would have continued to have non-formal education in a thatch tent.<\/span><\/p>\n The children, mostly of Fulani descent, are from over 10 satellite communities in Avelebe; a farming area whose indigenes were hardly noticed. <\/span><\/p>\n The community shares close boundaries with the Akatsi South District, and its inhabitants are farmers who are mostly into cattle rearing and arable farming.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The children\u2019s first exposure to literacy was when three local savings and loans personnel decided to start a school under a shed, and periodically gather them for lessons. The children, mostly Fulanis, had since been under their tutelage, until the MP on one of his tours in the district, came across the pupils in the deserted land.<\/span><\/p>\n Moved by the situation, Hon. Kwame Agbodza prompted the Ghana Education Service (GES), and later started partnering with NGOs to as a matter of urgency regularize the activities of the school to match with the GES curricular and provide the infrastructural needs of the school.<\/span><\/p>\n