The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Ahmed Baba Jamal, has advised parents to desist from cursing their children when they go wrong and invest the little they have in their education.
He said it was not true that people from deprived areas could never rise to high positions and that many people occupying top positions had humble beginnings.
Mr Baba-Jamal was speaking at the inauguration of two mosques at Aweaso and Number Four in the Kwaebibirim District on Saturday.
The mosques were funded by "Care and Social Development Organization", a non-governmental organization in Kuwait that is also funding the construction of 18 mosques in deprived communities and supporting the training of teachers from those communities.
He said Akwatia now has an education fund to which every parent in the community contributes one Ghana cedi every month.
The fund would be used to sponsor brilliant but needy students in the community when they graduate from Junior High Schools (JHSs) to Senior High School (SHS).
The District Chief Executive, Mr George Agyeman Duah, said the District Assembly would provide the Anweaso community with a JHS by next year and said the construction of the classroom block would start soon.
He said the School Feeding Programme, which was stopped in schools in the community due to some challenges, would soon be restored.