The 6th phase of exchange program kicks off

The sixth phase of the ANPPCAN-FK Exchange of staff program kicked off in February 2008. In this program, just like the previous five, ANPPCAN Chapters and the Head Office exchange / rotate staff  - that is, a staff from one chapter is posted to live and work in another chapter for a period of 10 months.

The ANPPCAN network has had many successes from this program among them being the replication of good practices grounded on child protection from other countries, which have now been operationalised by some chapters to address the plight of children trapped in various forms of abuse and exploitation in Africa.

Besides, the program has brought the ANPPCAN network members much closer than before, and as a result, there has been better acceptance and understanding of the common objectives of ANPPCAN and this has eventually repositioned ANPPCAN to spearhead the protection of the rights of children in Africa.

In the current phase of the exchange programme, the Head Office posted an exchange participant, Mr Washington Kote, to ANPPCAN Liberia, a West African country and at the same time received Mr. Prince Amoako from ANPPCAN Ghana.

Washington was a senior programme officer at ANPPCAN Head Office who successfully midwifed the Child Participation programme in Kiambu District in the  outskirts of Nairobi. He goes to Liberia with optimism of injecting more energy to a chapter responding to children in a country regaining from a decade long civil conflict. On his part, Prince from Ghana is from the Valley View University in Accra, rich in information technology and is expected to play a big role in taking the head Office's technology a notch higher.

ANPPCAN Ghana is one of the new and blossoming chapters of ANPPCAN with its offices in Accra, Ghana.