000 Children With Difficulty In Performing Activities Have Never Attended School – GSS

The Ghana Statistical Service has revealed that 39.4 percent (824,797) of persons 5 years and older with difficulty in performing activities have never attended school compared to 18.7 percent for that of persons without difficulty. According to the GSS statistics, about 40,838 persons with difficulty in performing activities who have never attended school are of school-going age (5 to 17 years), with an additional 10,668 children aged 5 to 17 with difficulty in performing activities attending school in the past. Difficulty in performing activities refers to having some level of difficulty or a lot of difficulty in performing the activity,…