ACTION/2015 Ghana launched provided participants opportunity gave their testimonies

ACTION/2015 Ghana launched provided participants opportunity gave their testimonies

 

The campaign launched provided participants/citizens the opportunity to come together under the umbrella of action/2015 Ghana to demand accountability from their leaders and call for inclusiveness in all discussion leading up to the Post MDGs and COP21 forum. As a result of the sensitization during the launched of the campaign, several   citizens both young and old understood the concept of action/2015 and MDGs and hence gave their testimonies on issues that affect them and their community.

My name is Alima and a mother of three,” i am personal victim to the water stress where I have to live my house early in the morning to the river side to fetch water before I bath my children to go to school. As a result they go to school late almost every day and sometimes got punished for it”. This event has helped me to know that my voice can make a difference and bring to the attention about my community problems to the government.

According to Alex, a class 5 pupil of Ashaiman zion primary schools,” my parents often complain that the rate of poverty and inequality is very high in their generation as if they are cursed. The rain pattern has change and has affected their livelihoods and as a result the food they eat, the water they drink, the air they breathe and the kind of strange diseases in the system are all evidence of change of weather pattern. “In the past my parents were using organic manure and they had quality farm yields but today they are using chemicals or fertilizers, yet the quality of harvest is not gurrantte and the cost of chemicals is high.” I understand through this event that it is not a cursed but it is caused by climate change.

My name is Kofi and i am 15 years of age from Ada, ”I come from a community that they pollute the environment With impunity through bush fires, cutting down trees and pollution of the water bodies, what else do we expect? Our Elders warn us never to invade the forest and reserved lands, but we don’t only violate their rule, but also degrade the land through sand winning and minerals exploitation.

My name is Adiza and a student of Abokobi JHS, i come from a community where we do not have access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities. All children in my community walk from miles in search of water every morning to bath and cook and sometimes service our parent’s farms and animals before attending school. We have to struggle to pass the same exams we sit with our colleagues who have better condition of living and learning. This is unfair and unjust” said a Adiza. I am joining this event because i have learnt that i can hold government accountable to provide my community with infrastructure.

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She spoke on individuals collaborating to attain the millennium development goals. To her, all the goals are of the same importance hence the achievement of these goals would make the world a better place to leave. She urged everyone especially, the authorities to make these goals possible, most importantly the ones Ghana as a country failed to achieve.

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She stood for gender inequality as the most degrading experience among all. She emphasized on education among children especially for them to know their rights, making policies and creating opportunities to be enjoyed by both genders.

 A participant and also a pupil of community seven Basic school shared what she chanced upon in the corse of the procession in the streets of Ashaiman. She noticed a man bating the wife because for up- keeping money, what most call Chop Money. Because he had no money and the wife also kept demanding, he got angry and beat up the wife. Poverty is a drastic disease she said, it can take away a person’s sanity. She believed by coming together, we can take away this illness called poverty. She concluded by saying, I stand against poverty. 

My name is Ahmed and a farmer from Tamale, the yields from our farms are now poorer and i  can’t even afford three-square meal a day to feed my family because of irregular rainfall due to the impact of climate change; much more providing my children with school books and materials. This is really affecting the education of my children” said a farmer. I am part of this programme

 

"when the voice of the people become so loud the government has no alternative but to listen" Martin Luther King Jnr.

Kenneth Nana Amoateng
Abibiman Foundation-http://www.abibimmanfoundation.org
International Day of African child and Youth(IDAY-GHANA)- http://www.iday.org/
Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP-Ghana)- http://www.whiteband.org/
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