Gov’t to increase beneficiary households in 2015 under LEAP Programme

The government will from next year increase beneficiary households under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, LEAP Programme from the current 77-thousand and six to a hundred and fifty thousand.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lither disclosed this during the monitoring of the LEAP disbursement in some communities in Accra.

She was accompanied by the British High Commissioner, Jon Benjamin and former Brazilian Minister for Social Protection, Mrs. Marcia Carvalho Lopes.

The team visited Mantse Agbonaa and the Weija Leprosarium disbursement centres.

Nana Oye Lither stressed government’s commitment to alleviate poverty across board hence the need to increase the LEAP allocations.

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