Funding Program Helps Extremely Poor in Ghana

A social cash transfer program in Ghana under which funds and health insurance premiums are provided by government to extremely poor families now covers more than 77,000 households throughout the country. The program known as Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty has been going on for six years now. Its broad objective is to lessen the impact of poverty on society's most vulnerable people. Beneficiaries, including orphans, people with severe disabilities and the aged are given...

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