Otumfuo Mobile Library tours Amansie West
The Project Coordinator for the Otumfuo Mobile Library Project (OMLP), Mr Adjei Kofi Mensah, has advised pupils and students to take a keen interest in reading, since it is the key to the acquisition of knowledge.
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He explained that reading was the best way of acquiring knowledge to enhance their learning capabilities at the various levels of education.
Mr Mensah made the statement in an interview with the Daily Graphic after a four-day tour of Nsiana in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region.
The tour was aimed at providing pupils from basic schools and senior high schools with access to reading books, computers and Internet services, which are lacking in the area.
About 700 students in the Nsiana community were taught basic computer skills and assisted to develop interest in reading in makeshift libraries put in place by the Foundation.
The project coordinator said he was hopeful that the mobile library project would be extended to other communities to ensure that many students and pupils benefit from the project.
Projects and programmes
The Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Charity Foundation’s projects and programmes in education have over the years supported different initiatives which cater for schoolchildren in deprived areas. It has introduced the OMLP which focuses on improving learning conditions of children by providing basic academic resources such as reading books and computer lessons to thousands of students in the primary, junior and senior high schools in Ghana.
The Mobile Library Project has 18 desktop computers, 30 laptops and a number of reading materials.
To help sustain the reading habit in the children, the OMLP team later presented over 100 reading books and a bookshelf to the Nsiana Methodist Primary and D/A JHS to promote learning in the community.
Commendation
The Managing Director of Prof. Quarm Publications, Mr Joseph Albert Quarm, a native of the community, commended the OMLP and advised the schoolchildren to desist from ‘galamsey’ operations and concentrate on their studies.
He said his motive for supporting the Otumfuo Mobile Learning Project was to make the schoolchildren have a feel of the use of computers and also develop the habit of reading.
During the evenings, and with the help of cinema vans, the OMLP team showed movies and documentaries about Ashanti culture and the Otumfuo Osei Tutu Charity II.