The organisations are the Street Children Development Foundation and the Neglect Foundation. Participants were selected from Kejetia, Adum and Race Course areas and sponsored by the Almere city in Holland, a sister partner of the Kumasi Metropolitan assembly (KMA).
Topics discussed included HIV/AIDS, Gonorrhoea, syphilis, candidditis, cholera and a visual documentary testimony of People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHAS).
As part of the workshop, health personnel from Suntreso and Tafo hospitals in Kumasi also offered free medical services to the kids of the participants.
Mr George Baffour Owusu-Afriyie, Executive Director of the Street Children Development Foundation, said women porters are vulnerable to the dangers and activities of wee smokers and drug addicts in the Kumasi metropolis.
He noted that HIV/AIDS cases and cholera had been on the increase and hoped that the workshop would enlighten them on such issues to help curb their vulnerability.
Mr Owusu-Afriyie urged churches and organizations to consider the plight of women porters in society and assist them raise their status.
He disclosed that through the efforts of the two NGOs, many women porters had registered with the Manhyia sub-metro office of the National Health Insurance Scheme to enable them receive health care.
Mr Francis Cornah, the country Co-ordinator of Almere city in Kumasi, advised the participants to give proper attention to the their children, so that they did not become burden on the government.
