WORK is progressing steadily on an SOS Village for disadvantaged children in the Tamale metropolis .
The project, which commenced about nine months ago, is being executed by Consar Construction Limited along the Tamale-Kumasi road, near the University for Development Studies (UDS) Medical School.
According to the site engineer, Mr Martin Addo, work was scheduled to be completed within a year. Facilities at the village will include a kindergarten, primary and junior high schools, home economics block, library, science laboratory, workshop and a canteen.
The village, which would be fenced upon its completion, would also have medical and social centres, bungalows for staff and a guests house.
The main family house would consist of 12 bungalows.
The engineer further said a proposed academy, including a three-storey building accommodation would later be added to the existing facility.
SOS Children’s Village is a social welfare organisation that provides orphaned, abandoned and destitute children with a secure and permanent family home and educational prospects.
Currently, the Nyohini Children’s Home in Tamale is among the few of such institutions that are catering for the needs of such underprivileged children in the Northern Region.
The home, which was established by the government in 1970 for the northern sector of the country, has its challenges in the provision of care and protection to the vulnerable.
Apart from the scanty quarterly budgetary support, which does not even come regularly, and compels the managers of the home to rely heavily on charity to provide some level of care for the children. The home is under the Department of Social Welfare.
The home also suffers from encroachment, lack of transport and medical facilities, among others.
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