A meeting dubbed,
"Youth Dialogue with the District Assembly" has taken place in the
Asuogyaman district of Eastern Region.
The meeting which was
organised by the Youth Bridge Foundation, (YBF) and sponsored by United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) was to provide the youth a platform to interact
with some officials of the Assembly.
Issues of vital concern to
the youth including the lack of job opportunities, lack of electricity in some
communities which effected education of the young people as they could not
study after school hours were raised.
According to them,
"their poor performance in the Basic Education Certificate Examination
(BECE) was as a result of their inability to revise their notes after the
normal school house due to the absence of electricity."
They also highlight that
due to lack of clinic, pharmacy shops and Drugs stores in some, some of them
lose they
Other concerns raised
included poor sanitation, lack of toilet facilities, lack of potable drinking
water and the high rate of teenage pregnancy.
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