BY MALEK APPIAH AFFUM
Child Rights International, Ghana (CRI) will on Thursday, 23rd March, 2023 launch its latest project known as the “Mobility Project for School Children” in Nwamase, a cocoa growing community in the West Akim Municipality.
The Mobility Project is aimed at providing tricycles to school going children in cocoa growing communities without schools as a means of transportation to and from school to access education.
When fully implemented, the project will provide a means of transportation to thousands of children thereby increasing access to education and school retention rates.
The project is expected to help improve punctuality, increase contact hours in school, and help stimulate excitement for students to enroll or re-enroll in schools.
The tricycles will also enable nursing mothers and pregnant women access healthcare facilities in a timely manner thus reducing infant-maternal mortality rates. While achieving all these objectives, the project will provide a means of livelihood to operators and caretakers.
To ensure that the project is sustainable, a set of guidelines and protocols have been developed to guide Mobility Management Committees established in the beneficiary communities to implement the project effectively and efficiently.
The ‘Mobility Project for School Children’ will be piloted in six cocoa growing communities across three regions of the country namely New Apaso and Tetekaaso in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region; Kofi Whettey and Mensahkwaa in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region; and Nwamase and Bonkuku in the West Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region.
The ‘Mobility Project for School Children’ is a collaboration between Child Rights International and Mondelēz World Travel Retail, Cocoa life program. It is expected to scale up to other needy communities to enhance mobility for school going children most especially and the community at large.
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