Ghana Care Foundation donates educational materials to Awudome schools
The Ghana Care Foundation, a non-governmental organisation based in the United Kingdom, has donated assorted educational materials to the Dufia of Tsito Awudome in the Volta Region, Togbe Gobo Dake XII, for onward distribution to schools in the area.
The items included; pre-school story books, story books, pens, pencils and nose marks.
At a short ceremony to hand over the items, Ms Isabella Prowse, Executive Officer of Ghana Care Foundation said, “it gives me joy to be here today to donate these items to the community and hope it will go a long way in helping to improve learning and teaching here.”
She said the donation was in response to an appeal made to her in one of her visits to Ghana by a friend, Mr Addison Badu, to support schools in his community.
Ms Prowse noted that, providing support to the education sector, especially basic needs of deprived schools, was something her NGO had undertaken for some years now.
She, therefore, urged the traditional authorities to collaborate with stakeholders in education to enforce discipline among school children so that they can grow to become good and useful citizens.
Ms Prowse appealed to other corporate organisations and philanthropists to make it a point to support deprived schools to complement government’s efforts.
Tsyofo Nyormi, who received the items on behalf of Togbe Gobo Dake XII, thanked the NGO saying that, “We the chiefs in the town cannot express our joy for the gesture.”
He assured that some of the supplementary books would be sent to the community library to inculcate good reading habits in the children.
FROM KAFUI GATI, TSITO AWUDOME
