The Street Academy in Accra has inaugurated a new health post on the premises of the academy to ensure easy and quality access to health care for the academy children. In addition, the health post will provide treatment for mental problems and offer nutritional counseling, not only for the children, but the general public.
Speaking to the media after the inauguration of the facility, Deputy Director at the Center for Peace and Reconciliation, Mrs. Diana Hopeson said the academy has received and will continue to receive the support of the Peace and Reconciliation Centre to take good care of deprived and vulnerable children.
She said streetism anywhere retards the growth of children and hoped the academy will continue to receive support to take poor children off our streets.
She expressed optimism that the facility will be a huge blessing to the children and the public.
One of the lead sponsors of the Academy, ‘the Zenzero Association’, said the construction of the health post has come to fill a major vacuum at the academy.
The chief of Kokomlemle, Nii Tetteh Obroni Onamansoro said, given that child rights are not prioritized in this part of the world, supporting street children through donations and similar projects like this is a worthwhile endeavor.
He appealed to corporate entities to continue supporting the Street Academy, to rescue vulnerable children from the streets.