Classroom block for Kpachelo English, Arabic Primary School
The Regional Advisory and Information Systems (RAINS), a Tamale-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), with donor support from the Canadian Feed The Children (CFTC) and IPSOS Foundation, has constructed a six-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities for the Kpachelo English and Arabic Primary School in the Savelugu-Nanton Municipality in the Northern Region.
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Prior to the construction of the new learning facility, pupils in the school used to study in a dilapidated classroom which had been declared unfit by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for the purpose of teaching and learning.
Inauguration
Inaugurating the block, the Executive Director of RAINS, Mr Hardi Tijani, said for more than a decade that the NGO started its work in northern Ghana, it had helped more than 30,000 people in the region in the areas of education, health, agriculture and social services.
He said RAINS, with donor funding from its partners, had constructed and renovated a number of classroom blocks for schools in deprived areas in northern Ghana.
He added that RAINS had also supported the training of teachers for disadvantaged schools, noting: "We have provided many schools in northern Ghana with teaching and learning materials in order to improve the quality of education for our children".
The Savelugu-Nanton Municipal Director of Education, Mr Abdulai Alhassan, expressed the hope that the new classrooms would facilitate quality teaching and learning in the community.
He commended RAINS and CFTC for their intervention in improving the quality of education in the municipality.
The Northern Regional Director of Education, Alhaji Mohammed Haroun, in his remarks, pledged that the regional education directorate would provide 134 dual desks for all the six classrooms.
Maintenance
He admonished the community members to see the facility as their own property by ensuring that the building was properly maintained.
The Vice-President of CFTC, Grail Black, said as a child-focused development organisation, CTFC believed that every child, no matter where he or she lived, deserved quality education.
She added that the CFTC would continue to fund educational programmes in the rural communities to ensure quality teaching and learning.