The Plight Of The Deprived Child Friday December 17, 2010 By Godwin Ofosu-Acheampong, Bodomase

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The plight of the deprived rural child especially, those in the remotest part of the country cannot be matched with that in the city.

It is sad to note that in these modern times where every school going age child is exposed to fast technological practices, most of such children are far from reaching such target.

Taking into account their state, the village child is disadvantaged in all aspects; compared to the city child. While the city child attends school and at his leisure time plays games on computer or stays at home for further studies, that of the village has to work hard alongside the elderly either on the farm or other households activities.

The children in the above photograph were captured when they were returning from a stream where, according to them, they had been hired by an elderly person to fetch water for money. A practice according to them they do occasionally at the expense of school hours at their disadvantage.

The children, aged between five and 12 years were spotted engaging in this activity during school hours and had to walk off a distance of about kilometer crossing the Kumawu-Bodomase major roads to the stream to fetch the water.

According to the elderest amongst them, their parents were not aware of their engagement since as that time, they were busy on their farms knowing very well that the children were in school.

The children had no excuse of engaging in such child labor since every provision had been made for school going age children to attend school in their respective areas throughout the country.

It is therefore imperative for their parents and all concerned to ensure that such young ones get their share of education
One worrying aspect of this was the fact that the children had to cross the main road linking Bodomase and Kumawu as and when they fetch water from the stream without considering the dangers associated with the several vehicular movements on the road.

Their humble appeal was simple: that the government fast track the water improvement project being carried out in the area to ease the burden of water shortages in the district since most times they are sent by their parents to fetch water for domestic use.
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