supporting such potentially productive people with economic opportunities can thus generate substantial national returns while their continuous exclusion represents a missed opportunity to the state as the gnsp states with their basic subsistence secured the extremely poor will regain their confidence and seek to engage in productive activities to support themselves and ultimately contribute to national development republic of ghana p specifically leap targets extremely poor households which include one or several elderly persons over the age of who have no means of support lowincome victims of natural or manmade disasters persons with a severe disability and orphans and vulnerable children republic of ghana pp