Story: Robert Ayanful
The cost of living in Ghana is still high, despite the presentation of economic indices by some quarters that the living standard of the average person in the country has been improved.
This is evident even in the nation’s capital, Accra, where life is supposed to be a little rosy for the people.
The situation is more precarious in the rural settings where people referred to as villages.
Whiles some people in the urban – rich areas or cities finds it difficult to come by one square meal a day, majority of their rural folks have to trek for miles with loads on their head to a market center before they can sell their farm products to be able to feed their wives and children.
Unlike the urban and semi-urban areas where school children enjoy the comfort of buses to and from school, school children in the rural areas or village have to walk long distances through bush path to attend school.
Accessibility of a health centre, motorable roads, potable source of drinking water among the absence of other basic social amenities are some of the major problem facing people in the rural areas.
In the so-called urban areas or cities, people have to make life due in make-shifts apartments as their permanent places of abode, and about 25 percent of all people living in cities are believed to be having in such slums.
About half of Ghana’s population are said to be living under the poverty line under severe and harsh economic conditions.
