A survey conducted by civil society organization promoting child rights in education, School for Life, has revealed that close to one million Ghanaian children of school-going age do not have access to education.
The organization cited majority of them in the Northern Region where poverty is widespread.
This came to light at the organization�s 2014 awards ceremony where some deserving staff were honoured for their meritorious services.
Programmes Manager of School for Life, Alhaji Sulemana Osman Saaka said the nation risked attaining the Millennium Development Goal 2 which requires that every child should be in school by 2015.
He admonished government to consider the situation as a major setback on the nation�s development agenda and take immediate steps to solve it.
Alhaji Saaka further called for deeper collaboration among stakeholders in the education sector to overturn the situation as the best means of reducing illiteracy, particularly in Northern Ghana.
He said the School for Life will continue to support needy but brilliant pupils in the Northern Region to acquire higher academic laurels.
�We are only playing our complementary role, the biggest responsibility is on government," he bemoaned.
On the Complementary Basic Education program (CBE), Alhaji Saaka said government needed to show enough commitment towards its attainment.
He regretted that some staff of the School for Life in the middle of 2013 resigned for unknown reasons.
This, Alhaji Saaka said was uncovered by a Technical Committee headed by Alhaji Hussein Harun, hence the establishment of the awards scheme.
According to him, the awards ceremony is aimed at boosting staff morale towards enhancing the School for Life�s mission in 2015.
The awardees were drawn from field workers, operations, accounts and finance departments.
The awardees received valuables comprising a smock, brand new refrigerator and a citation and Karim Mohammed was adjudged the best worker.
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