CCFC supports the education of over 22,000 deprived children in the Northern Region

The Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), a Child-centered International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with a subsidiary in Tamale, has supported the education of over 22,000 deprived children in the Northern Region, some of whom have completed various levels including tertiary education.

     
Mr William Anim-Dankwa, Acting Country Director of CCFC announced this in Tamale at the weekend during an annual retreat with its partner NGOs to seek the face of God through prayers and to thank God for past and present achievements as well as to reflect on challenges to carve out a way forward.

     
He said the support was in line with its core values of working to improve lives, create a working environment that builds self-esteem, and improve efficiency among other things assuring that CCFC would continue to make lives better for needy children and vulnerable communities.

    
Mr. Anim-Dankwa said CCFC had earmarked climate change as a priority area for impactful interventions to reverse the negative effects erratic rainfall patterns and rising temperatures brought on by climate change on communities.

     
He advised partner NGOs to strive harder than before as team players to re-energize their efforts in areas of community engagements in a bid to rededicating their work towards achieving the core values of CCFC.

     
The Country Director appealed to Ghanaians especially the youth to conduct themselves well before, during and after the 2016 elections to ensure that there was peace for NGOs and other development partners to continue to work for socio-economic development.

     
Reverend James Abdulai, Principal of the Northern Bible College, in a sermon advised the youth not to be over ambitious in life and said this could drive them to commit crimes and land them into trouble.

     
He counseled Ghanaian youth who were nursing the ambition to migrate to Europe for greener pastures to give up the idea since Europe is not different from Africa.

    
“The only difference could be their roads and high rise buildings but in terms of good living, Africa is better”, he added.

     
He said a time would come when Europeans would throng Africa to beg   recruit African labour force because their (Europe) population was not growing like Africa.

     
He said no one had been born useless and advised Ghanaians to use their vision and talents meaningfully to develop the country and stressed the need for Ghanaians to fight against greed, which was stalling the country’s development.

     
“Greed is killing this country and I am appealing to all Ghanaians to be on their guard against greed to help the country to grow”, he said.

    
He commended CCFC and its partners for working hard to improve the living conditions of vulnerable people and their communities and urged them not to relent their efforts in educating children to aspire for higher heights in their educational pursuits.


GNA