From Free Registration to Getting Every Child Back in School: BTMC County Rollout Begins in Gbarpolu.

From Free Registration to Getting Every Child Back in School: BTMC County Rollout Begins in Gbarpolu

With registration fees removed for children in public primary schools, Government is gearing up for an aggressive community campaign to reach children who have dropped out of school or have never enrolled, get them into the classroom, and help them stay there.

That work is now moving into the counties through the Back to My Classroom Campaign (BTMC).

Led by the Ministry of Education, BTMC brings together the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, and Ministry of Local Government, with LISGIS, UNICEF, development partners, county authorities, communities, and families working through one coordinated approach.

The first county engagement has begun in Gbarpolu, where the inter-ministerial team brought together the County Superintendent, education authorities, civil society, parents, community leaders, representatives of persons with disabilities, and other stakeholders to establish the county BTMC structure and prepare for the local rollout.

The work goes beyond asking families to send children to school. Communities will help identify children who are out of school, understand why they are out, mobilize their families, connect them to education, health, protection and other needed services, support their enrollment, and follow up to help them remain in school.

Gbarpolu is the first of seven targeted counties. The engagement will continue in Bomi, Grand Gedeh, Sinoe, Grand Bassa, River Cess, and Grand Kru as county structures are established and communities prepare for intensive mobilization.

Free registration is opening the door. Back to My Classroom is making sure we reach the children who are still outside it.

The message to every community is simple: find the children, bring them back to school, and help them stay.

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