Featured News Story:Child poverty in Ghana up by 70% – NDPC

The Good Shepherd Love Foundation has gathered that a recent survey by the National Development Planning Commission has revealed that, child poverty is still a major problem in Ghana.The work shows that 70% of Ghanaian children lack access to adequate welfare. This means that only a few young ones have access to proper security, education and other amenities necessary for proper growth of a child. 

Dr. Felix Addo-Yobo, Acting Director, Development Policy Division of the NDPC recounted that “Looking at monetary poverty alone the number was 28% but once we delved deeper and looked at various dimensions of poverty, we saw the average sum is well over 70% of Ghanaian Children.” According to Joy Prime News (our source), it is reported of the sorry state of children roaming the commercial District in the Greater Accra region with careless abandon. An investigation report evidenced in a video revealed all these.

In the video, one could sight three boys of school-going age tagging along what seems to be an endless spread of garbage; they head towards the Korle lagoon where odor from the polluted lagoon fills the air. They had no school, no supervision and no parent to help them navigate their future. Many more children come to the site as a result of accompanying their working mothers, mostly traders.It is a really disturbing situation seeing many of the children who migrated from other places without their parents and thus live their lives anyhow.

The Good Shepherd Love Foundation seeks to create awareness of this growing and worrying trend as uncovered in the report in order to awaken and heighten the interests of several stakeholders to act.

By Reginald Nii Odoi and the Good Shepherd Media Team. Source: myjoyonline.com.