IBIS Ghana honours 34 facilitators for hard work
IBIS Ghana , a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has honoured 34 facilitators working under the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme in the East Gonja District in the Northern Region for their hard work.
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The facilitators were presented with bicycles and certificates to motivate them to continue to give of their best under the programme.
The three-year programme, which was launched in 2012, is to teach out-of-school children in deprived communities how to read, write and acquire numeracy skills to enable them to enrol in formal schools at the primary level.
The programme, aimed at assisting Ghana to attain its goal of universal primary education, is sponsored by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID). Currently, the CBE programme is being piloted in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Brong Ahafo regions.
IBIS Ghana is implementing the project in the East Gonja, Kpandai, Sawla and Bole districts in the Northern Region in partnership with Partners in Participatory Development (PAPADEV), East Gonja Civil Society Association (EGOGSA), Choice Ghana, as well as the Ghana Education Service, assemblies in the four districts and the beneficiary communities.
Speaking at the ceremony at Salaga dubbed the 'Appreciation Day', the CBE Project Officer for IBIS Ghana, Mr Yussif Kofi Asuo said the ceremony was to show appreciation to the facilitators for their hard work at the end of the first year of the programme.
Successes
He said the four districts were adjudged the best in the implementation of the programme in the country at the end of the first year of the programme following a test conducted for the children enrolled under the programme in reading, writing and numeracy skills.
Mr Asuo said based on the successes chalked up under the programme for the first year, the East Gonja, Kpandai, Sawla and Bole districts have been adopted as the model for the implementation of the programme nationwide.
He gave an assurance that IBIS Ghana would continue to motivate facilitators to ensure the attainment of the objectives of the programme and appealed to the assembly to also fulfil a promise to the girls who were able to enrol in formal schools, to continue their education.
Mr Asuo also appealed to the various district assemblies in the beneficiary regions to help establish basic schools in the beneficiary communities where schools are located far away, to enable children, who had successfully completed the nine-month functional literacy programme, to enrol in those schools.
This, he said, was necessary to meet the Ghana Education Service(GES) policy to ensure that children in primary schools did not walk for more than three kilometres to go to school and five kilometres for junior high school (JHS) students.
Pledge
The East Gonja District Coordinating Director (DCD), Mr Ibrahim Salifu, commended the facilitators for their hard work and pledged the support of the assembly to make quality education in the district accessible to all children.
He said the assembly had decided to establish two primary schools in two communities in the district where children had to walk long distances to attend school.
The Head of Supervision, GES East Gonja District and Coordinator for the programme, Mr Mohammed Jakpa, reiterated the call on the facilitators to work hard to ensure the success of the programme in the district.
The Executive Director of Choice Ghana, one of the implementing partners of the programme in the East Gonja District, Mr Mohammed Seidu, urged the facilitators to see the voluntary services that they were providing under the programme as their contributions towards quality education in their respective communities.
