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| Inset: Mad. Wasai King, Mrs Kasisi and the U/E Deputy Reg Min |
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| Mrs Lucy Awuni : Dep U/E Reg. Min |
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Pe Alua said since education began in Paga in 1948, Kazugu had produced only one girl graduate and has for the past years failed to produce a female teacher , community health nurse, security female personnel or held any position in any of the decentralized departments of government. This, he lamented calls for stakeholders’ support in addressing issue of girl child education in the area and the region as a whole. He said as a first step, a Rural Education Development Fund (RED fund) was launched in 2009 during the first formal celebration of the festival to solicit fund to bring quality education to the doorstep of the people, particularly girls in order to help them realize their full potentials. The fund he added would also cater for female graduates especially medical professionals from Kazugu to make up for the gap in education. According to him, contribution from the RED fund this year will be used to start Bishop Abadamloora Girls Senior High School to immortalize the late Catholic Bishop’s name for bringing blessing to Kazugu. Pe Alua therefore, appealed to the people to contribute generously to the fund to make quality education in the area a reality. He thanked the Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo, for his valuable contribution to the development of the fund which has gone a long way to motivate most teachers in deprived Junior High Schools in the area. The fund, Pe Alua indicated, has also been used to support two orphans in the area. Stressing on the developmental challenges facing the area, Pe Alua called for the opening up of rural areas with irrigation dams and industries for the youth to move there to decongest the cities instead of constructing interchanges and flyovers to decongest them because such moves cannot force the youth out of the cities, it will rather attract more of them to the cities. He also appealed for two out of the 17 cocoa roads allocated to the Region for Kazugu to link it to Gomongo, Navro-Pungu and Nyangua and further appealed for a health facility or the posting of at least a community health nurse to the area to educate the people on preventable diseases who will as well attend to ailments and maternal health related cases in inaccessible areas of the communities. He also called for the rehabilitation of the Kazugu Small Scale Irrigation Dam and canals to assist in dry season farming. Pe Alua cautioned the youth against HIV and AIDS and urged them to cultivate the habit of tree planting to serve as vegetation cover. The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs. Lucy Awuni, who was the special guest of honour assured the people of government’s support and urged them to make education of the girl child their outmost priority. She said with the inauguration of the SADA board, deprived areas of northern Ghana are poised to experience massive infrastructural development. On Education, Mrs. Awuni pledged to support school drop outs in the area, particularly lactating mothers who due to their predicaments could not proceed to the senior high school level and appealed to them to reconsider going back to school since education is the only way they can achieve success in life. The District Chief Executive for the area, Thomas Ada Dalu, in a speech read for him, pledged to incorporate the concerns raised in to the assembly’s annual and short term action plan and called for the support of the people. Mr. Dalu also called on the youth to remain focus and disciplined at all times since government is fully committed to the course of the youth. He moreover, called for good environmental practices.
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