Amanpe DA Primary School receives computers, books
The Empowerment for Centre of Women and Children, has collaborated with the Ghana NGOs Coalition on the Rights of the Child to resource the Amanpe District Assembly Primary School, near Bonwire in the Kwabre East District in Ashanti Region with teaching and learning materials valued at GH¢10, 000.00.
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As part of the Girl Power Project, the school received three flat-screen computers and accessories, textbooks, exercise books, dictionaries, poster colours, pens and pencils.
The items were sent to the school by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands, through a Netherlands-based NGO, End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT).
Apart from these, the two bodies have spent GH¢720.00 to renovate the school’s kindergarten block
Remarks
In separate remarks during the presentation of the items at Amanpe, the Executive Director of Empowerment Centre for Women and Children (ECWC), Madam Aminata Ibrahim, and the acting National Co-ordinator of the NGOs on the Rights of the Child, Barimah Akwasi Amankwah, asked pupils of the school to make good use of the items, especially to broaden their horizon.
They also asked the school authorities to take good care of the items and ensure they were used for their purposes.
Both the Programmes Manager of EPAT, Mr Theo Norten, and the Legal Advisor of EPAT, Laura Bosch, were of the view that the pupils taking advantage of the computers and other learning materials in their custody offered a great deal of hope for their brighter future and pledged more support from EPAT.
The Head of Inspectorate and Supervision of the Kwabre East District Directorate of Education, Mr Eric Ohemeng, said the presentation of the items was to inspire both the teachers and pupils to work hard.
The Headmistress of the school, Ms Kate Amo-Mensah, who received the items, expressed gratitude to the NGOs and promised to take good care of the items.
She enumerated insufficient classroom chairs, teachers’ tables, cupboard, lack of potable water, teachers’ bungalow, electricity, among others, as some of the major challenges of the school and called for public support.
