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Four deprived communities in the Bosome-Freho District of the Ashanti Region, have been provided with befitting school blocks and an Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre.
Until the gesture, these communities were forced to have their classes under trees and in some cases in improvised structures due to a lack of school infrastructure.
The fortunes of the four communities namely; Morontuo, Ampaha, Apewu and Esaase however changed courtesy of Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a German-based Ghanaian non-governmental organization (NGO), which promotes quality education in underprivileged areas.
Out of the NGO’s educational support programme, the Ampaha Primary School now has a 6-unit classroom block, and three-unit blocks each for the Esaase Lake Side Methodist Primary School, Morontuo Primary School, and Apewu Presbyterian Basic School.
The project comes as a sigh of relief for the communities, all located on the fringes of Lake Bosomtwe, the only natural lake in Ghana, especially at the basic level of education.
In the worst scenario, some of the communities had to combine Kindergarten (KG) 1 and 2 as well as Class 1 pupils in one makeshift classroom, with as many as four pupils sharing a dual desk, while others sat on cement blocks to study.
The NGO, in furtherance of its mission to support the less-privileged in selected communities across the country in the area of health and education, has also equipped all the ICT labs in the beneficiary schools with 10 brand new desktop computers.
Humanitarian facilities
Each of the schools is also benefitting from mechanized boreholes and water reservoirs, as well as toilet facilities to help promote good hygiene among the pupils in the schools.
Projects inauguration .
Speaking at separate durbars to inaugurate the projects in the four communities last Friday, the Deputy Country Director, Enock Sunday Attipoe, said the main focus of the NGO was working towards poverty alleviation through the provision of educational infrastructure, health and sanitation facilities and other initiatives in some districts.
He was upbeat that the provision of the facilities in the communities would bring much relief and improve the lives of the beneficiary communities.
Mr Sunday Attipoe pledged to continue working hard to extend their support to many communities across the country to complement the government’s development agenda.
He advised the pupils to take their lessons seriously while urging the management of these schools to put the facilities to good use.
Commendation .
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Simon Osei Mensah, commended Madamfo Ghana Foundation, for its effort towards complementing the government’s effort toward poverty alleviation in the country in the past two decades.
He urged the beneficiary communities to adopt good maintenance culture for the projects so they would last longer to merit its provision.
“ Your quest to help develop this country through your social intervention programs is beyond our imagination”, he said and called on other benevolent bodies to emulate such a kind gesture.
Other dignitaries who witnessed the inauguration of the projects were the District Chief Executive for Bosome Freho, Mr Yaw Danso and the District Education Director, Mr Seth Boateng.
Source: Broadcastergh.com/Ayisah Foster
