Melcom provides school block in Bolga
Melcom Group of Companies has inaugurated a three-unit classroom block valued at GH¢100,000 for the Saints Peter and Paul Primary School at Atulbabisi in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region.
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The three-unit classroom block, with an office and a store, would enhance teaching and learning.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Joint Managing Director of Melcom Group of Companies, Mr Mahersh Malwani, stated that in order to ensure that his outfit was well positioned as a retail business giant in Ghana, it had set up the Melcom Care Foundation under which it had embarked upon several outreach programmes, including those in education, health and sports, to meet the needs of the vulnerable in society.
He said Melcom, in the last quarter of 2013, donated an ambulance to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra to meet some health needs of the hospital under the Melcom Care Foundation support programme.
Mr Malwani gave the assurance that his outfit would re-invest part of its profit to support the vulnerable and needy, particularly in the areas of education, health and sport.
Appeal to Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly
He appealed to the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly to help the company acquire a place to put up its own structures to serve the communities in the region, and further impressed upon the school management to adopt the culture of maintenance for other pupils to benefit from the school block.
The Municipal Chief Executive for the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly, Mr Edward Ayagle Ayeriba, lauded Melcom for complementing the efforts of the government, and assured the management of the company that plans were far advanced to help the company acquire land to put up a complex to serve the people.
Budget on provision of infrastructure
The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Daniel Syme, observed that the government spent about 75 per cent of its budget on the provision of education infrastructure and said the government alone could not provide all the needs of education and would need more support from the private sector.
He stated that the President, as part of fulfilling his promise of providing 200 senior high schools in the country, had started the process of putting up 50 of the schools, out of which the Upper East Region has been allocated six.
He, however, called on the Bolga Assembly to help complete other structures in the school to further boost teaching and learning.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Margaret A. Ayarik, who could not hide her joy, appealed to Melcom, the district assembly and the regional coordinating council to help provide the school with an ICT centre stocked with computers and furniture to help the schoolchildren learn ICT.
The school management, in appreciation, presented some gifts, including a citation, to the management of Melcom Group of Companies. — GNA
