TANO SOUTH MUNINICIPAL OBSERVES ‘’MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL’’

 

The Tano South Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, Municipal Education Director Mrs. Mabel Botokro Municipal Officials of the Tano South Municipal Assembly and Officials of the Tano South Municipal Directorate of Education visited Primary schools in the Tano South Municipality to interact with new entrants of KGI and Primary one to mark “My First Day at School”.

The team which was divided into groups to cover the various educational zones saw the MCE, MCD and MED leading their various groups with each group presenting educational materials, soft drinks and goodies to the new entrants.

                 

                    Some of the Dignitaries interacting with the students in one of the schools

The Tano South Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Mabel Botokro who accompanied the MCE in a short welcoming speeches at all schools welcome the students especially those entering school for the first time and urged them to study hard to become responsible adults in future. He said teachers are the eye of the community and for that matter, urged them to avoid absenteeism and do all they can to impart knowledge to the pupils to make them become good leaders in future and advise the pupils not to exchange their nose masks with their friends when she visited schools.

The Tano South MCE and his group which visited the schools saw the MCE addressing pupils and teachers of the schools he visited. In his addresses, he said government is committed to improve the educational system of the country and for that matter, government through the Tano South Municipal Assembly has been able to construct a number of school buildings to boost infrastructural development of our schools and advised parents to send their children to school to enable them have brighter future.

Hon. Takyi urged the teaching staff to continue with their dedicated service to God and country adding that Government has a lot for them and charged them to be good role models to the pupils they teach because that was the only way the Municipality and the country at large could bring up responsible people to take over the realms of leadership in the future. He said teachers should not only put up responsible behavior in school but also at their home since they lived with the pupils in the various communities. He advised them to adhere to covid-19 protocols by insuring that the washing of their hands under running water with soaps and wearing of the nose masks.

 He used the occasion to distribute items such as Drawing Kits, erasers, pencils, excises books, biscuits, kalyppo and pencil cases to the pupils.

PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITY IN THE TANO SOUTH MUNICIPALITY RECEIVE SHARE OF COMMON FUND

 

The Tano South Municipality Assembly through the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development has disbursed the three percent (3%)  Share of the Common Fund meant for people living with disabilities (PWDs) in the Municipality.

Some of the Items

In a short address to welcome the beneficiaries, the Tano South Director of Social Welfare and Community Development, Mad Gladys Zuuri said the Government of Ghana in its policy to invest in the people to transform the economy has made it possible to distributed the items to people living with disability (PWD) in the Tano South Municipality with the aim of supporting them to expand their businesses and advised them to use the items for it purpose and not to sell.                   

        Mad Gladys Zuuri District Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development giving her welcome address

 Addressing the beneficiaries, the Tano South Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi extended the warm Greetings from His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the beneficiaries. He said it is an obligation on the part of the government to support people living with disability and through that, the government through the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development has released the items representing three percent (3%) of the Assembly’s Common Fund to be disbursed to people living with disability in the district.

Explaining the methodology through which beneficiaries are selected, Hon. Takyi said, the Assembly relied on the Data captured from the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development in the selection of beneficiaries and urged the beneficiaries to always give accurate information to government Institutions and Agencies in compiling individual data for policy and decision making processes.

The Tano South M C E Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi delivering a speech

Addressing the gathering, the MP and the Deputy of Ahafo Region Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere  expressed gratitude to be part of the ceremony as he recognises the role Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) play in the socio economic development of the Municipality and the country as a whole and indicated that the government has set up a scheme to allocate three percent (3%) of the Municipal Assembly’s common fund solely to serve the needs of Persons with disabilities and affirmed that the allocation for the disabled persons is governed and urged all persons living with disabilities to register and join the Association of the disabled so as to benefit from the fund.

                         

Hon. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere Member of Parliament for the Tano South constituency addressing the gathering

Hon. Sekyere said the previous disbursement comprised of physical cash to PWDs which a lot of them complained of not ever receiving them so the government had to restructure the policy to rather support and encourage PWDs economic livelihoods by providing them with equipment and assistive tools. In so doing, it will help to resource them to also employ other people to reduce the unemployment in the country. He again encouraged PWDs to use the equipment /tools to work and not to sell them. He said the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development would embark on unannounced monitoring to assess how PWDs are utilizing the equipment or tools.

The Chairman Abdulai Isssah, thanked the Department and the Government for their continuous support and urged all PWDs to utilize the equipment/tools to show their seriousness so as to get more support from the government. He again said they should not condemn/demean themselves but hold themselves in high esteem so earn respect from the general public.