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The event took
place on Saturday,
November 11, 2017.
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It was supported by some
organizations, including
Girls Guide, Angel TV, TV3
and Daily Guide.
Campaigns Africa sought to
address the concerns of societies,
especially children and
women — Ms Ruth Afoko
A walk to support child
beggars on streets
By Marshall Bobobee
Campaigns Africa, a non-governmental
organisation
(NGO) has undertaken a
walk in Accra to help remove
child beggars from the
street.
It was on the theme: “Remove child
beggars now”.
The event took place on Saturday, November
11, 2017.
It was supported by some organizations,
including Girls Guide, Angel TV, TV3
and Daily Guide.
The walk, which involved members of
the NGO, stake holders and people from
the surrounding communities, started
from the Accra Mall and ended at the
Kwame Nkrumah Interchange.
Ms Ruth Afoko, the Director of Communications
of Campaigns Africa and
student at Wisconsin International University
College (WIUC), in an interview,
said Campaigns Africa sought to address
the concerns of societies, especially children
and women.
She said the NGO was using the walk
to create awareness to the general public
about the need to remove child beggars
from the street.
Ms Afoko said this had become imperative
considering the long term threat
begging posed on society.
According to her, the monies these
children collect does not even go to them
but their begging masters.
“These children are supposed to be in
school,” she said passionately.
She added that assuming these children
are nine or 10 years now, in 10 years’
time or even less they would be adults
and once they are not in school and there
is nothing good for them to do, they will
resort to all kinds of behaviors that poses
threat to society, including drug abuse,
rape and armed robbery.
They wants migrant child beggars to
be repatriated or integrated into family
system by the government and those
from the slum communities in Accra to
be taken care of.
She, therefore, advised the general
public and parents to make sure they
make good homes, create a serene environment
for their children and support
them in prayers to enable them to become
future leaders.
The writer is a Level 200 BA
Communication Studies student
She said the NGO
was using the walk
to create awareness
to the general public
about the need
to remove child beggars
from the street.
WIUC catches dancehall fever
• Continued from page 12
Dancehall music is one of the
most energetic, danceable music
with its crazy tunes, rhythms and
fast beats.
“It is never a dull moment listening
to it,” says Okon Eni-obong
Abigail, a Level 200 Accountancy
student.
Many artistes have been able
to fill up stadia with this genre.
An unbreakable record has been
set by Shatta Wale, a popular
dancehall star in Ghana.
He filled the entire stadium
when his album After The Storm
was launched. It is the effect of
dancehall fever.
Dancehall is also known as
bashment, the mother of hiphop.
The name comes from the popular
Jamaican recordings that were
aired during parties with local
sound systems.
Dancehall is long considered to
be the creation of the musician
Henry Junjo Lawes. The term
comes with an entire culture of
music, dance and social engagement.
The dancehall fever seems to
be incurable. You can find it in
every corner of the country, including
the various campuses
such as Wisconsin.
People start to dance when the
tunes start to play. Musicians
such as Shatta Wale have taken
over the airwaves in the country.
Even kids know every lyric of the
songs.
Dancehall has become one of
the most patronize music genres
and certainly, it has come to stay.
Written by Princess Omoferi,
Rashida, Hassana Camara and Erica,
all Level 200 BA Communication
Studies students