Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Chief Executive, has advised parents to take advantage of government's intervention to make education affordable by sending their children, especially the girl-child, to school.
She indicated that the introduction of the free exercise books and school uniforms, increase in capitation grant and the expansion of the
school feeding programme were interventions of the government to support parents financially.
This, she said, is to ensure affordability and accessibility to education by all school-going children in the country.
Ms Koomson was addressing communities in the municipality at separate functions as part of her tour of the area to explain government policies to
the people, know their problems and help find solutions to them.
The tour took her to Akyem Asuboa South, Adukrom, Kyeremase, Eshiem, Bantama, Appeadam, Akyem Koforidua, Suponso, Samankwa, Yaw Donkor, Badukrom, Nyamebekyere, Asuoso, Osinho, Aprokumase and Mmofram among others.
She said the best legacy parents could bequeath their children was to give them sound education adding, cocoa farms could get burnt but when they invested in their children's education they would reap the benefits in future.
Ms Koomson told parents not to regard girl-child education as a waste of resources and that gone were the days when it was said that "Women's role was only in the kitchen".
She said now what men could do women could equally do it and sometimes better.
She advised women not to shy away from politics and encouraged them to contest the forth-coming district level elections.
Ms Koomson challenged the people to rekindle the communal spirit as was the case some years gone by.
She explained that with the increase in population, government's resources would not be enough to provide them with all their social
amenities but would assist those who took the initiative to embark on self-help projects.
Ms Abena Abiba, Akyem Oda Constituency Women's Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) advised the women who complained of lack of capital to form co-operatives to enable them to access credit from the various micro-credit schemes established by the government.
Mr Frank Nkansah, member of the Birim Central Municipal Assembly, thanked the people for their support to the government and urged them to stand solidly behind it.
On their complaints about high prices of kerosene, he explained to them that the government had not increased the price of kerosene.
He said some traders who wanted to make huge profits were buying it in large quantities from the tankers and retailing at exorbitant prices.
Mr Nkansah assured them of measures being put in place to erect kerosene dumps at vantage points in their communities where they could buy
it at approved prices.
In almost all the communities visited, the people complained about the poor nature of their road net-work, lack of electricity and potable water, inadequate classroom blocks, teachers' bungalows, places of convenience and markets among other things.
Mr Samuel Badu-Baiden, Deputy Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr Mumuni Gariba, Constituency Chairman of the NDC, Mr Alex Opare, Deputy Constituency Chairman, Mohammed Nurudeen, Constituency Organizer and Ms Margaret Abena Nyarkoa, Constituency Treasurer accompanied the MCE on the tour.