Government will wean beneficiaries under LEAP | Economy

Mr. Frank Adjei, City Manager of the Kintampo District Social Welfare Department, said the government was going to wean some LEAP (Livelihoods, Poverty Alleviation) (LEAP) beneficiaries, said Frank Adjei .

The most affected are orphans aged 18 and older, who continue to benefit from the cash grant and who would be encouraged to engage in sustainable trade to fend for themselves.

The government, through the LEAP program, provides recipients with cash grants ranging from 64 GHC to 106 GHC for maintenance.

They included vulnerable people aged 65 and over, people with severe disabilities, pregnant women and orphans in a household.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of an experience-sharing forum held in Kadelso, in the municipality, Adjei said the LEAP program had been introduced to help only vulnerable and extremely poor people in society.

"LEAP is basically for sensitive people who can not participate in any economic activity because of their vulnerability," he said.

The forum was jointly organized by the Coalition for the Right to Information, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and the Community Youth Development Foundation (CYDF), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), another NGO.

It aimed to sensitize LEAP members, to identify the main issues and to help solve these problems in order to maintain its implementation.

Mr Adjei said that, although the LEAP program had a positive impact on the socio-economic livelihoods of beneficiaries, it was necessary to identify and badist orphan beneficiaries who had abandoned the program. school to take training in job skills to ensure their future.

This, he said, would also pave the way for registration and include more qualified people who do not benefit from the program.

Mr. Adjei stated that his department had received information that some of the beneficiaries were exposed to alcoholism and an unhealthy lifestyle and warned the department that he would not hesitate to wean himself beneficiaries who would not have used the cash grants wisely.

Ms. Mina Mensah, head of CHRI's office for Africa, noted that cash grants to beneficiaries were inadequate and called on the government to increase this amount.