The Ghana Education Service (GES) has instituted measures, to get out of school children return to school with the aim of getting children out of the streets.
One of such interventions is the Ghana Education Outcomes Project which is an additional funding project under GALOP design to train, re-integrate and retrain out – of school children as well as improve learning gains in schools, delivered by Service Providers.
According to the GES, existing data from the Ghana Statistical Service on the number of out-of-school children in Ghana from 2010- 2020 census indicate a high prevalence of out-of -school children.
The GES therefore sees the need to follow the successes chalked from the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme by Ghana Education Service which resulted in over 200,000 children going back to school.
This was contained in a statement copied to Yagbon Radio by the Sawla- Tuna-Kalba Education Directorate.
According to the statement, the Sawla- Tuna-Kalba District is one of the beneficiary Districts out of the 26 selected Districts across the the country.
The project targets children between the ages of 8- 16 who are out-of-school and hence parents are there encouraged to t
seize the opportunity to get their children enroll into the project.
The programme has two components with three interventions; urban components deals with Out-of-School Children (OOSC) in Accra and Kumasi with the rural component dealing with Out-of School Children (OOSC) in 26 selected Districts across the country.
The life span of the project is three years, from 2022-2025.
The project seeks to getting children out the streets, building capacity for teachers or facilators in beneficiary schools, building the human capital index (amount of capital knowledge children have by the age of 18 by letting them acquire basic numeracy and literacy skills) and efficient use of resources among others.
Source: yagbonradioonline
