Participants at a National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) training workshop have been urged to ensure that children lived good social lives.

Ideals such as patriotism, communal spirit and the need for peaceful coexistence were key elements identified as vital for grooming children to develop into adulthood.

Mr Roland Azumah, Bawku Municipal Director of the NCCE, made the call at the launch of a training manual designed by the United Nations Initiative for Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) dubbed; “Children’s Voice for Peaceful Future and Protective Environment”.

The training was organized in collaboration with UNICEF for teachers, circuit supervisors and civic club leadership aimed at equipping participants to appreciate the manual and to enable them to implement the programme in 18 selected schools and five communities in the Bawku area.

The participants were taken through the structure of the manual which included building confidentiality and trust, protecting the environment for children through peaceful coexistence, and value diversity.

Mr Azumah said the training was to strengthen the civic education clubs in schools and communities to create grounds for peaceful environment to prevent conflict.

He said the civic education clubs were important in schools because they had the tendency to create enabling environment to educate other children on the need to be obedient and self reliant.

He urged the participants to take the training seriously to enable them to impart the knowledge acquired to the children in their various civic clubs.

Mr Pontius Pilate Ampaabey, Regional Director of NCCE, said the manual was a document prepared by UNICEF to help guide patrons of the civic education clubs in resolving conflicts and building national interest in children.

He said the manual would provide adequate education to strengthen the protection of child, provide children the opportunity to discuss conflicts and find solutions to them.

He commended UNICEF for its collaboration and called on other development partners to emulate the gesture.