Tag: children
Parents urged to keep firm eyes on their children
Dr Kingsley Nyarko, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, has urged parents and guardians to keep firm eyes on their children and wards for...
Families must pay attention to children – SWAG
The Social Workers Association of Ghana (SWAG) on Sunday called on families to pay much attention to their children in the wake of the...
Oxford/AstraZeneca jab trial in children paused
(PA Media/dpa) - The trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in children has been paused while regulators investigate reports of a rare form of blood...
40,000 children in United States have lost one parent to Covid-19
(tca/dpa) - A “staggering” 40,000 children in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to coronavirus, three-quarters of them teenagers, a new model...
Pakistan keeps most schools shut as case numbers rise among children
(dpa) – Pakistani authorities announced on Tuesday that most schools would remain closed for another three weeks as thousands of children were infected with...
Parents urged to help inculcate the COVID-19 safety protocols in their children
Mr George Osei Kwaku, Headmaster of the Baakokrom M/A Primary and JHS, near Sefwi Bekwai in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipality, has reiterated that the COVID-19...
Let’s protect healthy development of children
Madam Florence Ayisi Quartey, Director of Department of Children, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has called on parents and stakeholders to protect...
Children must be introduced to local languages early – Minister
Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, has encouraged the youth to learn local Ghanaian languages alongside the English Language...
Plumpy Nuts: Delivering malnourished children out of the jaws of death
The rib cage visibly out, pale skin, tinny and tightly curled hair with swollen feet and skinny or bloated body; these are some of...
Children are 7 times more likely to skip brushing if their parents do not...
...Parents urged to role model good oral health habits among children
Accra-March 20, 2021--Research conducted globally by Pepsodent has found that children are 7 times...
Millions of children are not brushing their teeth day and night
....New global research highlights the damage being done to oral care routines since the outbreak of COVID-19
Accra Ghana, 19th March, 2021 – A quarter...
Philanthropist donates to children in farming communities
For the celebration of his birthday, the Founder of the Bernard Ekow Aggrey Initiatives, has presented assorted items to children in Akromakrom and Abaasa...
Feed your children with indigenous dishes – Nutritionist
In the olden days, according to Mrs. Patience Bortey a Nutritionist at Nungua, mothers taught their children how to cook indigenous food but “today’s...
Hope Abound for Women and Children organises COVID-19 Vaccine awareness for Kayayei Girls
Hope Abound for Women and Children (HAWC), a feminist Non-Governmental Organization has organized COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Awareness sensitization for Kayayei Girls...
An urgent call for women’s participation in political leadership as we celebrate International Women’s...
On March 8 of every year, the world usually gathers to reflect and celebrate women's achievements. People around the globe dress in purple, green,...
Volta Diaspora Caucus supports couple who lost four children to fire
Volta Diaspora Caucus, a Non- Governmental Organisation established to support indigenes of the Volta Region leaving outside the Region, has supported Mr and Mrs...
Drug raids launched in Sicily amid charges of selling to children
dpa/GNA - About 30 people were detained on Sicily on Tuesday as Italian police launched raids on the Mediterranean island against people who...
German mother charged with murdering five of her children
dpa/GNA, - A mother from the western German city of Solingen accused of killing five of her six children has been charged with murder...
Sex Crimes’ Education and Children
The rising reports of sex crimes such as rape have become a thing of worry especially as its victims cut across every constituent of...
Muslim parents urged to educate their children against the LGBTQI
Al-Sheik Ilyas Ali Mushkir, Imam of the Kibilatain Mosque at Sawaba in the Asokore Mampong Municipality, has called on Muslim parents to counsel their...
South Sudan to vaccinate 2.8 million children against polio
South Sudan in collaboration with the UN children's fund, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday it will vaccinate over 2.8 million...
2021 Lunch box school feeding initiative launched
The 2021 Lunch box school feeding initiative has been launched to Provide Academic Year Supply of School Meals for 6400+ Children in 25 Schools...
Innate immunity protects children from severe COVID-19 symptoms
A new study has found children tend to develop mild COVID-19 symptoms because their innate immune system is quick to attack the virus.
In...
Unknown gunmen abduct 44 people, mostly children in Nigeria
dpa/GNA – At least 44 people, most of them children, have been abducted from a school in west-central Nigeria, a local government official...
Ghana: Over 1,700 children contracted COVID-19 in four months
A total of 1,737 children in Ghana have contracted the novel coronavirus within the last four months, Child Rights International, a non-governmental organization, with...
Parents urged to show interest in the content children watch
Parents have been urged to show keen interest in the type of contents their children post or watch on the internet and the various...
Children urged to cultivate habit of reading
Mr Guy Amarteifio, Volta and Oti Regional Director of Ghana Library Authority (GLA), has called on children to cultivate a habit of reading to...
Otiko Djaba celebrates 59th Birthday with donation Of 59 Wheelchairs to PWDs
The former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Madam Otiko Afisah Djaba has celebrated her 59th Birthday with a donation of 59 brand...
Assemblies of God prays against spread of COVID-19 among children
The Assemblies of God Church on Sunday prayed against the spread of COVID-19 in the country, especially among school children, as they prepare to...
PEGA & Friends Foundation Pays Medical Bills of Less Privileges, adopts children.
...As foundation celebrates Annual get-together
Irked by the inability of some indigent patients who received medical treatment at the various hospitals in Lagos and Ogun...