The Essential Package Committee of the Central Regional Coordinating Council has commenced a visit to the Cape Coast School for Deaf and Blind (Cape-Deaf) in a move targeted at engaging, encouraging and enlightening students concerning their right and privileges enshrined in the laws of Ghana.

‎The committee, chaired by the Central Regional Coordinating Director is made up of members of the Gender Department, Social Welfare, DOVVSU, Legal Aid, Judicial Service, Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service and others in the Central Region and operates under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection.

‎The visit to Cape-Deaf, underscores a program spearheaded by the committee's Secretary, Madam Richlove Amamoo, otherwise known as Mama Awotsu Adzagba II.

‎Madam Richlove Amamoo, who doubles as the Central Regional Head of the Department of Gender and Social Protection, expressed that it was necessary to have engage learners, base on their vulnerabilities and equip them to defend themselves in times of danger such as rape, defilement, and assaults. 

‎"The burden of technology facilitated gender base violent as people have resort to social media as the means to abuse verbally or use naked pictures to intimidate others especially the vulnerable, like these students," she addressed.

‎She said the Essential Package Committee is there to speak the voice of the marginalized and help curb the rate of abuse in the region.

‎Madam Richlove Amamoo again claimed that some data from the Ghana Health Service in the Central Region shows that some of the teenage pregnancy recorded among school girls were perpetuated by their teachers.

‎This act she charged the students to report advances of abuse by their teachers to her outfit or any of the departments under the Essential Package Committee.

‎The Essential Package Committee equally presented some learning equipments such as mathematical set, pens, and books to final year students of the school, due for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

‎Mr. Gideon Appiah, Headteacher of Cape Coast School for Deaf and Blind, underscored that the vulnerabilities of the learners paves way for abuses like  refusal of fathering impregnated girls, making sexual advance with them.

‎He expressed his joy as the engagement has brought hope and built the knowledge capacity of these special students.

‎Sompaonline.com//Francis Thompson