The Ministry of Gender, Kids and Social Safety (MoGCSP) joins the worldwide group in commemorating Worldwide Day of Households 2026 and reiterates its name for strengthening help programs to handle inequalities affecting youngsters and weak households.
In an announcement launched on Could 15, the ministry introduced that this 12 months’s occasion can be held beneath the theme of “Households, Inequality and Youngster Welfare.”
The ministry mentioned the event emphasizes the essential position that households play as the inspiration of society and attracts consideration to the widening social and financial inequalities that proceed to impression youngsters’s well-being and growth.
The ministry famous that many households proceed to face challenges equivalent to poverty, unemployment, home violence, little one labor, human trafficking, and restricted entry to high quality well being care and schooling.
She defined that these pressures weaken households’ potential to offer the care, safety, steerage, and help that youngsters must develop up in a secure and nurturing surroundings.
The MoGCSP confused that robust and steady households stay important for nationwide growth, social cohesion and the safety of weak folks.
“Each little one in Ghana has the best to a secure, nurturing and supportive surroundings, no matter their financial background,” the assertion mentioned.
The Ministry reaffirmed the Authorities’s dedication to strengthening households and bettering little one welfare by means of social safety applications and focused interventions.
These embrace the Livelihood Empowerment Towards Poverty Program (LEAP), college feeding applications, the Nationwide Youngster Care Technique, and strengthened little one safety programs.
The Ministry additionally highlighted a number of coverage frameworks launched to advertise constructive parenting, social inclusion and equal alternatives for youngsters.
These embrace the Youngster and Household Welfare Coverage, the Justice for Kids Coverage, the Nationwide Youngster Coverage, and the just lately launched Early Childhood Care and Growth Coverage.
The ministry mentioned efforts had been additionally being stepped as much as deal with gender-based violence, promote the inclusion of individuals with disabilities, strengthen community-based little one safety programs, and develop digital and social welfare companies.
The MoGCSP known as on mother and father, caregivers, conventional and non secular leaders, civil society organizations, growth companions and native communities to work collectively to construct stronger households and safer environments for youngsters.
“Collectively, allow us to renew our resolve to construct stronger housing and a society that leaves nobody behind,” the ministry mentioned.
