UK NGO TRAINS CARE GIVERS (PAGE 54, NOV 15, 2010)

A UK-BASED non-governmental organisation (NGO), Street Invest has trained a number of care givers who have taken up the challenge of working with street children in the region.
The training took the form of capacity building workshops for the participants selected from some institutions and organisations working in the interest of street children.
The beneficiaries were equipped with knowledge of approaching street children and how to seek their opinions on interventions tailored towards supporting them. They were also tasked to impart the knowledge to other people who are working in the same field.
Two of the beneficiaries, Mr Silas Ayaaba and Mr Abass Abubakari, staff of Afrikids Ghana, a child welfare NGO based in Bolgatanga in an interview with Daily Graphic, commended the organisers for instituting the training programme, which had given them an insight into how to handle street children.
Mr Ayaaba bemoaned the attitude of some social workers who did not consider the opinions of the children they were supposed to be helping.
He, therefore, encouraged them to change their attitude towards the children since any intervention that did not have any input from the children would not be successful.
Mr Ayaaba was sad at the current trend where people were no more interested in the welfare of other people’s children.
He blamed the situation on the nuclear family system and advised the public to consider other people’s children as theirs in order to build a better society.