The Education Outcome Fund / Ghana Education Outcome Project (EOF/GEOP), financed and assisted by the Ministry of Education in Ghana (MoE), the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the World Bank, and the Education Outcome Fund, has raised registration in its enactment societies, especially in Mimima in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East region.

The scheme outstretch Out of School Children (OOSC) and join them into recognise basic schools for better and advanced studying results ability to read and write and the ability to understand and use numbers. About 21,316 members have been registered after its inauguration in 2023.

The EOF/GEOP Complementary Basic Education scheme has three cohorts: Cohort 1 registered 6,619 members, Cohort 2 registered 7,467 members, and Cohort 3 also registered 7,652 members with Plan International Ghana working on as the project’s vendor.

Members undergone the ability to understand to understand the use of numbers and the ability to use reading and writing in real life situations in thier regional language.

Amadu Mahama, Project Manager for the Education Outcome Fund (EOF) at Plan International Ghana, said that the programme focuses to decrease inability to read and write among children in non-urban areas.

He said,”we singled out 20,000 children in the first place, but currently we have triumphantly registered 21,316 children back into school”. He observed that raw fact shows that about 8 million children don’t have a way into education, emphasizing why the initiative is soo important. The programme is executed in the Bono East Region, North East and Savannah.

Mr. Amadu requested parents to permit their wards to register in school through the programme. “One of the difficulties we encounter is parents’ hesitation to take their wards back to school, as many count on them for assistance in commercial activities like as farming. Nevertheless, we have directed community awareness attempts to make parents realise the significance of education, resulting in heightened agreement for registration”

A member Yakubu Zuli, stated that the programme has been helpful to her expressing, “Previously when I started schooling I was an illiterate but as soon as I registered, now I can calculate for parents. My mother especially when we go to sell at the market her agricultural produce. I want to become a nurse in future to support my parents and my society, that is my desire.”

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