The Ntiamoah Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) last Tuesday handed over five fully furnished libraries to five first cycle schools in the Birim North District in the Eastern Region.
The libraries are equipped with furniture, assorted library books, flat-screen television sets, projectors, computers and their accessories.
Beneficiary schools
The beneficiary schools are the Akyem Adausena Methodist, the Dodoworaso District Assembly (D/A), the Ntronang Roman Catholic and Presbyterian and the Nkwateng Presbyterian Basic Schools.
The NGO, committed to education development and health promotion, also inaugurated an Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre for the Old Abirem Anglican Basic School.
The foundation had earlier in the day donated various items such as 10 43-inch flat-screen television sets, 10 UPS, 10 computers with accessories, 10 boxes of reading materials, and a quantity of story books, to 24 kindergarten, primary and junior high schools in the district.
The beneficiary schools included the Sakapia D/A basic, the Akoasi Roman Catholic and the Seventh Day Adventist basic, the Amuana Praso Presbyterian basic, the Prasokuma basic, the New Abirem Islamic, Nkwateng Islamic, the Amuana Praso Presbyterian, the Prasokuma D/A, the Afosu Roman Catholic kindergarten (kg), the Hweakwae R/C kg, the New Abirem Islamic kg, the Nkwateng Islamic kg and the Mpintimpi kg.
Maintenance culture
Speaking at separate ceremonies, the Programmes Manager of the Ntiamoah Foundation, Williams Sarpong, said the facilities, books, computers, television sets and other educational materials presented to the schools were valued at over GHc600, 000.
Mr Sarpong stressed that the purpose of the gesture was to enhance the teaching and learning outcomes of beneficiary schools, especially in ICT and early childhood education.
The Executive Director of the Ntiamoah Foundation, Mercy Quansah Ansah, announced that the 20-year-old NGO had so far awarded 259 scholarships to students studying at various educational institutions in the country.
The Birim North District Director of Education, Solomon Azubila, commended the Ntiamoah Foundation for regularly providing teaching and learning materials for many schools in the district.
He, however, appealed to the NGO to expand its activities to cover all the basic schools in the district.
A board member of the Ntiamoah Foundation, Lawyer Philip Kwasi Buabeng, emphasised that the NGO’s primary focus was to provide quality education for children in the district without discrimination.
The Krontihene of Adausena, Nana Offeh Gyekye Oteatuoso II, advised the parents, teachers, and pupils of the beneficiary schools to develop a maintenance culture to ensure the facilities last longer.
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