
The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development on its core mandate to promote and protect the right of the child undertook sensitization activities. The main reason was that there has been evolving issue with regard to child neglect and child abandonment in Bekwai Municipality. The Department has found out that children under the ages of eighteen (18) who normally found themselves on major streets to trade at school hours and others been engaged in all sort of actions are child who has been abandon or neglect. Therefore, this exercise on Monday, 22nd May, 2023 was to educate parents on child abandonment and child neglect in Asakyiri community.
Officers from Department of Social Welfare and Community Development undertook the sensitization and three main points were discussed;
1. The overview of child abandonment and child neglect.
2. The causes and effects of child abandonment and child neglect.
3. Ways in which child abandonment and child neglect issues can be resolved.
For more information contact the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, BMA.