Some scientists in the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have launched a program to formally educate street hawkers and people that live on the streets.

Speaking to Joy News’, leader of the group, Professor David Doudo said: ‘the campaign is to get people who sell or live on the streets to the classroom while others will be schooled in technology and other professions to be self-sufficient.”

He stated that many such persons can do well when invested in, rather than leaving them on the streets.

“The agility and ability they employ in their works show the special brains they have and how they can be appropriately trained to benefit the society,” Professor David Doudo told Joy News’ Richard Nyarko.

Professor Doudo said ‘Brains on the Street’, the Non-Governmental Organisation he and his team have created, encourages the general public to recommend some of these brilliant street hawkers to them so that they can be incorporated into the program.

“The team has selected some people to counsel them when the program begins,” he stated.

“These people will be identified according to their various strengths and weaknesses so that we would know where to educate them in,” Professor Doudo added.

The leader told Joy News that some of the beneficiaries will be taken to school, others will be trained in craftwork.

He added that the program will vigorously train individuals in technology in order to produce exceptional IT specialists for the country.