Bibiani worried about the work of NGOs in the District

Bibiani (W/R), Oct. 6, GNA - Mr Louis Bayouh, Coordinating Director of the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District Assembly (BABD), has charged members of the District Child Protection Committee to be more committed and intensify their advocacy campaigns to ensure the elimination of worse forms of child labour in the district. Mr Bayouh was addressing members of the District Child Protection Committee at Bibiani in the Western Region on Wednesday. He said district assemblies have been urged to mainstream the elimination of child labour into district development plans and appealed to cocoa growing communities to resist child labour by desisting from engaging children as farm hands.

Mr Bayouh reminded the Committee members of the task of identifying the problems associated with child labour notifying the district authorities of the movement of children in farming areas. Miss Mercy Atta-Tutu, District Social Welfare Officer, urged parents to enroll their children in schools, provide all the needed-supplies and regularly supervise their attendance to school. Miss Atta-Tutu said four more cocoa growing communities, Sefwi-Adiembra, Krodua, Nambro and Bethlehem, in the district were still using children on their farms. Asawinso, Chirano, Akaasu, Bekai Kofikrom and Aboduabo are communities that had already been identified as using children in cocoa farms in the district.