Akwatia, Oct. 17, GNA - An Educational fund which will promote girl-child Education at Akwatia by assisting brilliant but needy girls has been launched.

Launching the fund on Sunday at her out dooring ceremony, Nana Adwoa Owusuaa, the newly installed Gyasehemaa of Akwatia said she had come to ensure that education was given priority attention in the diamond mining town.

She lamented that girl enrolment in schools in the township was low and that most girls did not advance beyond the Junior Secondary school level.

Nana Adwoa Owusuaa said the fund would provide their educational needs to encourage them to remain at school and to advance to the highest levels possible.

She asked parents to take advantage of the capitation

grant and the school feeding programme by sending their

children to school, adding that it would be inexcusable for

any parent to keep a child at home instead of ensuring that

he or she was at school. She observed that defilement cases were on the increase

in the area at a time that HIV/AIDS cases were also on the

ascendancy. Nana Owusuaa called on the people of Akwatia to unite,

take communal labour seriously and pool resources for the

development of the town.

Mrs. Abena Asafo-Agyei, a lawyer and citizen of Akwatia, advised parents and guardians to take good care of their children and ensure that they did not go wayward but were moulded to be morally upright.

She cautioned girls against teenage pregnancy which, she noted, could destroy their future.

Mrs Asafo-Adjei said that girls could aspire to attain the highest position in any field and should therefore rub shoulders with their brothers and even beat them. She called for support for the educational fund so that it could support as many brilliant but needy children as possible. Nana Appiah Gyekye, Gyasehene of Akwatia, assured Nana Owusua of the support of the Akwatia Traditional Authority to make the educational fund a success.