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Life does happen, especially when you least expected\u2026 and oh no, I will not give you the make lemonades clich\u00e9. #yatiiaabr3. Losing hope is never that easy thing for many of us and in as much as close friends and family would empathise; soon everyone forgets about your \u201cwahala\u201d (troubles<\/em>) and moves on. What happens after then? Do you eventually fall off or somehow find your way?<\/p>\n We drove to Bolgatanga and began our field visits to some of UNICEF Ghana\u2019s education projects the following day as the flight to Tamale was delayed by 6 hours or so. UNCEF has been working with donor, USAID and the Ghana Education Service in one of its programs; the School for Life, which is a Complementary Basic Education (CBE). CBE is helping those children who may have dropped out of school or may have never attended, to find their way to the classroom, maybe a few years behind but they are young and there is no race. This program also caters for children who are not given a chance because of disabilities often associated with witchcraft and gender, with the aim of ensuring inclusive education.<\/p>\n The first stop was Kaasa Primary School of about 300 children where we met specially trained teachers for the entire program which runs for nine months. We were led\u00a0 by Alhassan Andani works at the CBE Builsa North district office as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in Charge of Literacy Classes.<\/p>\n \u201cThe objective of the complementary basic education is to give children who are out of school or who must have dropped out of school some training in literacy, literacy skills to enable them enter into the formal schools. We also aim at eradicating; eliminating or reducing early girl child marriages\u2026we also aim at providing access to and relevant quality education to children in rural, undeserved and hard to reach areas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n At Kaase I met a wonderful little girl, Anyenlie who told me she loved to draw. I told her, \u201cWell so do I.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Now allow me to introduce to you a future president, Afli. That\u2019s his dream.<\/p>\n This is a day I will forever hold dearly in my heart. The time spent with these adorable, bright children full of hope irrespective of real challenges. I am grateful to UNICEF Ghana and more especially little Elizabeth, Matherline, Anyeline, Priscilla, Lamsi, all the girls and Afli for daring to hope. Your beautiful smiles and laughter, innocence and determination rubbed off me. I am grateful to Mr Andani and Angela Asoakta of CBE Builsa North. God bless you.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Francisca Kakra Forson\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not the first time that I had the opportunity to travel elsewhere in Ghana where life was a bit different from what was in my eyes ordinary. Indeed in 2012 I joined UNICEF go up North on field visits to some of their education and health projects in some communities in Tamale. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[374],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"builsa-2\"](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Builsa-2.png\")
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