Rescue Volunteers supports basic schools in Lower Manya Krobo
Resue Volunteers Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Accra, has supported some basic schools at the Kpong Circuit in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region with personal protective equipment (PPE) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
The beneficiary junior high schools included the Kpong Presbyterian, Kpong Evangelical Presbyterian, Kpong Methodist, Kpong Ahudjo Roman Catholic, Kpong Islamic and the Kpong Quarters Roman Catholic schools.
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The day’s programme was on the theme’’ Keeping students safe’’.
As part of the presentation, the NGO in collaboration with the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Health Directorate and Kpong Ensign College of Public Health also organised a day’s education on COVID-19 for the students of the beneficiary schools at the Kpong Ensign College, the venue for the programme.
Misconceptions
The Municipal Disease Control officer, Mr Solomon Ohene Gyabaa, in his closing remarks commended the students for the way they participated and asked relevant questions about the pandemic.
He said there were a lot of misconceptions in the public domain in Ghana and the world at large since the pandemic struck the world which needed to be addressed.
He also asked them to constantly observe the stated protocols in schools and at their homes to avoid contracting the disease.
Statistics
The Country Coordinator of Rescue Volunteers Ghana, Ms Lydia Tsotsoo Odai-Tettey, who dwelt on the theme of the day’s programme, said the pandemic brought a lot of surprises that overwhelmed the world, including Ghana “but we are still alive due to safety protocols observation”.
She said it was true that statistics showed a downward trend since the introduction of the vaccines, but that alone was not a guarantee that we would all continue to be safe from the virus.
“Others are already in hospitals fighting for their lives while death toll records keep changing as additional numbers are received day in day out,” she emphasised.
She said Rescue Volunteers main objective for the second phase of the nationwide campaign was to demonstrate and distribute PPE to student representatives and their facilitators for onward demonstration and distribution to the needy in their various schools.
‘’This is to ensure students remain safe. Our message as an NGO is that, the government has done its part and it is the duty of parents and education facilitators to contribute their quota in assisting students keep safe during this unsafe period. Healthy students, strong future and healthy nation’’, she said.
Purpose of PPE
The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinator, Mr Godfried Ofoe Caesar, who represented the municipal director, thanked the NGO for what he described as a timely intervention in the presentation of the PPE.
A lecturer at the Kpong Ensign College of Public Health, Dr Edward Kofi Sutherland, who chaired the function, reiterated the UN Secretary-General’s message on COVID-19 that “we all have to move forward with resolve and without stigma”.