Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former first lady and President of the 31st December Women�s Movement, has embarked on inspection tour of a number of Early Child Education Centres run by the Movement in the capital. The centres form part of the over 10,500 projects the Movement operates across the country.
They are located close to market places, ministries and other places of work. Mrs. Konadu Agyeman Rawlings undertook the inspection tour towards the end of the holiday period when the Centres were about to re-open. The Ghanaian Democrat newspaper reporter who chanced upon her at the Movement�s Early Child Education Centre at Nima could not help but wonder why she chose to undertake the inspection tour when the Centres were on vacation. This is how she explained it, �The motive behind this is quiet simple.
It is important that there is constant rapprochement between us and the teachers and management to ensure that we improve upon the projects to guarantee quality as a way of making them attractive. Certainly it is during vacations that proper assessment can be made of the buildings and their surroundings. There are also follow-ups on non-academic reports from management of the centres before resumption of lessons.
The former first lady, accompanied by a Project Manager and some members of the school management team said such inspections with the team she was carrying along provided the Executives of the Movement adequate knowledge about the state of the environment in which the children learn and play. She added that the interiors and learning tools were all of paramount interest to the Executives in order to provide the maximum nurturing for the children. After the classroom, she inspected the playground, the playing equipment, such as the �Merry-Go-Round�, and trees to see if any of them did pose danger to the children.
The 31 December Women�s Movement is internationally recognized and ranks as the largest women�s movement in Africa. It has branches throughout the country and runs non-profit making projects. In addition, it runs a few income generating projects to mitigate some of the problems encountered by single parent members and also offer jobs to women irrespective of their political affiliations. One of these is a large chocolate factory at Kpone near Tema that it jointly owns with a Chinese company. The factory that can employ nearly 3,000 persons to alleviate unemployment in the country was sabotaged by the previous government and remained non-functional for the past eight years. The movement needs more funding to expand on its assistance to women.
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