By Laudia Sawer
Accra, Oct. 19, GNA - The Catholic Church as part of its quest to provide free education to underprivileged persons, has built a five-unit one-storey classroom block for the City of God community at Old Fadama in Accra.
The building constructed at the cost of GHS100,000, was funded by members of the Mary Mother of God Catholic Church, Devtraco Court, Tema Community 25 and other Catholics in India and Italy.
It forms part of the ‘City of God Project’, a humanitarian project, initiated under the auspices of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra to help residents of old Fadama in Agbogbloshie to obtain education and health services.
Reverend Father Subash Chittilappilly, Director of the City of God Project, said free education and free food would be provided for pupils of the school adding that it would accommodate the kindergarten and primary pupils as well as be used for adult school.
Rev. Fr. Chittilappilly noted that his outfit has already registered 10 children to kick-start the school calling on residents to enroll their children at the facility for them to acquire the needed basic education.
He stated that there was enough room to accommodate about 30 children in a room therefore parents must take advantage of the project to educate their wards at no cost.
He revealed that the project which has been running for about 10 years, also ran an adult school for school dropouts and a free clinic service for residents.
The adult school, he indicated, had enabled some of the school dropouts to learn, write and passed their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
According to him, his outfit would in the near future construct a library facility to promote a reading culture among the youth in the area as well as a youth centre which would help harness and develop talents in the area.
He appealed to Christians, corporate organizations and individuals to support the project to help bring some comfort to the deprived residents.
Mr Stephen Arku Sabah and Mr Alhassan Adams Wugiti, residents, thanked the Catholic Church on behalf of the 16 ethnic chiefs in the area promising to maintain the facility.
They noted that some non-governmental organizations and philanthropists, used them to make money as they came to the area to take pictures of them promising them to solicit funds for them abroad.
“However, these people and NGOs after taking the pictures to give to their foreign partners and donors do not return to the area to help us as they promised, even though they got the support they needed,” they added.
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