Source: GNA - The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is to set up a Child Support Unit (CSU) to alleviate the challenges that caregivers and children face in ensuring compliance with enforcement orders.

Source: GNA - The Sekondi-Takoradi Area Women’s Movement of the Apostolic Church, Ghana has donated various food items, detergents, clothing and toiletries for the upkeep of the inmates of the School of the Deaf at Inchaban, near Sekondi.

Source: GNA - Nana Oye Lithur, Minister, Gender, Children and Social Protection, has said a social protection package for street children in the country would soon be introduced.

The package, likely to be “cash transfer” under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, is expected to help improve the situation amongst street children.

Blood and Genotype Foundation, a non-governmental-organisation based in Accra would on Saturday December 5, launch a blood screening programme free-of-charge for the residents of Cape Coast and its environs to know their blood type.

Bright Future Voluntary Organization, a Christian NGO based in Kasoa Central Region, has condemned the disgusting rate at which children of school going age are being used to sell on the streets.

The NGO led by Mr. Raphael Nyame, observed that the practice is becoming rampant in Kasoa and called on the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the concerned authorities to do something to curtail the situation.

Source: GNA - Item worth hundreds of Ghana Cedis are feared to have been lost when fire gutted parts of the building housing the Adansi South Health Directorate during the early dawn of last Monday.

Source: GNA - School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinators in eight districts of the Northern Region have been trained on common mental disorders and human rights to help promote mental health education in their schools.

Source: GNA 03.11.2015 - Pregnant women in the Volta Region who suffered from eclampsia were supplementing the cost of magnesium sulphate injection 50%, Divine Azameti, Head Pharmaceutical Services, Volta Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) had indicated.