Accra (GAR), July 3, Mrs. Naadu Mills, Wife of the Vice President, has called on Early Childhood Development Centres to admit handicapped children as a first step to helping them to adapt to societal integration early in life. ”It is important that we sensitize our children at an early age to the needs of the handicapped, so that the ignorance, superstition and the insensitivity which currently underlie our relationship with them will be eliminated from our society.” Mrs. Mills was addressing a symposium in Accra today as part of activities marking a week-long celebration of the first anniversary of the Early Childhood Development Centres Association – Ghana (ECDCAG). She said although the Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDC) are the first form of formal education for the child, it is unfortunate that these centres have been concentrated in the urban areas to the detriment of the rural poor. The Second Lady, therefore, urged ECDCAG to endeavour to move their programmes to the rural areas to improve the status of the children there.
