ABJECT POVERTY STILL IN RURAL GHANA.

These photographs taken in Chereponi in the Northern Region  of Ghana shows children and a mother (standing) competing with pigs and dogs for groundnuts on a small refuse dump after winnowing.

Chereponi is among seventeen districts in the Northern Region benefiting from United State Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project on Resiliency in Northern Ghana Project (RING) to contribute to the government efforts to sustainably reduce poverty and improve the nutritional status of vulnerable households in targeted communities in the Northern Ghana, but one may wonder if this vulnerable children are benefiting from the project.

A research conducted by the World Food Programme on their comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis on the Northern Region identifies significant disparity in development.

Despite an overall increase in Ghana’s wealth and development in recent years, the Northern Region continues to record high incidences of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition.

Although the Government has made great strides in helping people get out of various health hazard and abject poverty with the help of other Non-Governmental Organization but much more need to be done to alleviate health risk and abject poverty in the rural communities especially in Northern Ghana.

Photos: Geoffrey Buta.

 A CHILD EATING WHILE THE PIG ALSO FEEDING ON THE SAME GROUND