A sensitisation team from the Ghana Boundary Commission, led by the Director for Policy, Planning, and Programmes (PPP), Mrs. Sarah Ekuban, conducted a targeted sensitisation exercise for school children of the Saru RC Primary and JHS in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region.
The exercise, which forms part of a partnership between the Ghana Boundary Commission and the GIZ-supported Mitigating against Transnational Organised Crime (M-TOC) Project, aimed at building the resilience of participants against transnational organised crime and the importance of effective boundary management and cross-border cooperation.
In addressing the students and teachers during the exercise, members of the sensitisation team took turns to address pressing transnational organised criminal issues such as illegal mining (galamsey), child trafficking, human and goods smuggling, terrorism and violent extremism. The participants were also taken through topics on discipline, empowerment of the girl child, and being security conscious.
The team also sensitised some members of the Saru community in general on the pertinent issues mentioned above.
These targeted sensitisation exercises are scheduled to continue over the next few days and climaxed with a wider gathering of all targeted groups visited before the team moves on to Dorimon, in the Upper West Region.
