A day�s sensitisation programme, to enable the
youth to take a centre stage in the effective implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the communities, has opened in Kumasi on Thursday.
The event, facilitated by The Young People We Care (YPWC), in partnership with the Abibiman Foundation, both Civil Society Organisations,
under the auspices of the United Nations(UN), aims at utilizing the potential of the youth to help to mobilize baseline information on the
prevalence of poverty, among other things, to help achieve the MDGs in the country.
About 100 participants from the tertiary and secondary levels of education, technocrats and other community- based organizations are
attending the programme.
�A decade into the MDGs: the voices of the citizens,� was the theme of the meeting.
Dr Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei, Lecturer of the Geography and Rural Development Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology (KNUST), said the goals under the programme could be achievable but for the lack of adequate access to information on progressions, release of funds for the work among others things.
He mentioned the goals as the reduction of poverty by half, universal primary education, general equality empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health and global partnership for development.
Dr Adjei emphasised that, Ghana like any other African Country, is on track and mentioned some of her successes under the MGDs as the reduction of Guinea worm cases, and that, 52 percent of rural people are enjoying potabl