By Eric K. Amoh, GNA
Bolgatanga, Feb. 13, GNA – The Pencils and Erasers Club, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in the Upper East Region has presented 89 dual desks to the Bukere Primary School located in the Bolgatanga Municipality.
The NGO has its headquarters in the United States of America.
Prior to the presentation, some pupils of the school laid on their bellies on bare concrete floors to do class exercises and other academic activities.
Madam Victoria Amoah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Club in a speech read on her behalf by Ms Hasiya Issahaku, said the Club was concerned about the plight of pupils of the school who were eager to learn, in spite of the challenges confronting them.
“They defied the odds and are ready to face the challenge by accepting to sit on the bare floor and learn. This action moved me to think deeply into this striving determination of these our children who have willingly availed themselves to be educated,” she said.
Madam Amoah said her organisation’s search to help children with such determination unveiled the plight of children of the Bukere Primary School, adding that “the conditions were unbelievably challenging, and sad at sight as these children lay on their bellies on bare concrete floors to do their class exercises.”
She said the Mbawin Foundation, a locally based NGO swiftly responded positively to her appeal to support the school, and offered to provide the 89 pieces of dual desks including; other costs valued at about GHC10, 000.
“I am forever grateful to the management of the Mbawin Foundation and proud to announce that we at the Pencils and Erasers Club are more than delighted to be associated with the Foundation for the support, and reiterate that their relevance and achievements are beyond measures and for which we owe them the greatest gratitude for the time frame and volume of work that they put into supporting this need,” Madam Amoah said.
The CEO said as part of the Club’s desire and readiness to ensure that children got the best conductive environments for learning, it had in the past supplied some learning materials in the form of pencils, erasers and exercise books to selected needy schools in the Municipality.
She thanked members of the Club and other benefactors who had supported the club in diverse ways to grow and appealed to individuals and other NGOs to support the club to provide essential educational materials to schools in the area.
Receiving the desks, Mr Francis Atinga, the Human Resource Manager at the Upper East Regional Education Directorate who represented the Regional Director of Education, expressed gratitude to the Club for the gesture and called for similar support to schools in the Municipality.
Madam Rose Nyaaba Headmistress of the school said the gesture would improve teaching and learning in the school, and commended the Club for the foresight, and promised to ensure that the desks were maintained.
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