Sunyani Municipal Directorate of GES inaugurates clubs

The Sunyani Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has inaugurated School Health Clubs formed in 21 selected junior high schools.

The clubs established under the Ghana Adolescent Reproductive Health (GHARH) project is to serve as a platform to train a good number of peer educators who would be educating their counterparts on adolescent sexual reproductive health issues.

The formation of the clubs is a component of the GHARH pilot project being implemented by the GES in the Brong-Ahafo Region, is part of efforts to improve life skills and behavioural change among adolescents.

It is being funded by the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom through Palladium, a UK-based non-governmental organisation that promotes education and quality adolescent sexual reproductive health.

Ms Mary Gyimah, the Sunyani Municipal Director of Education said Narcotics Control Board statistics indicated that the region has gained notoriety by becoming the second leading producer of marijuana in Ghana.

Ms Gyimah expressed optimism that the formation and inauguration of the clubs would bring about the needed and socially acceptable lifestyles among the adolescents and mould them into responsible adults in future.

This, she explained is because young people could make great use of knowledge, skills and information to make informed decisions.

She said with more children receiving education, schools are efficient ways to reach out to the school-age youth and their families in an organised manner.

Mr Kwasi Oppong Ababio, the Municipal Chief Executive, in an address delivered on his behalf said the Assembly would continue to play its expected role for the sustainability of the project.

Mr Ababio therefore encouraged members of the clubs to take advantage of the project to transform and reform themselves for a better and quality lives in future.