Free exercise books for children in northern regions
Schoolchildren in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions have received a total of 30,000 branded exercise books from Samara Group of Companies to boost their basic education. Each region received 10,000 books to be distributed to needy pupils in the beneficiary regions.
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Some of the beneficiary schools included; Aniganzanga and Kalbeo-Tindonsobligo Basic Schools, Baptist Basic School, Afoko School, Sandema Preparatory, St John Integrated SHS and Gani JHS all in the Upper East Region. For the Upper West they included Egala JHS, United Basic School, Fongo LA JHS, WA Model School, TI Ahmadiya Muslim Primary School and the Wa School for the Deaf. And in the Northern Region, the beneficiaries were, Methodist School, Girls Model School, EP School, Kaladan SDA, Central Zaharia, Ngani M/A School, Presbyterian School, Tusani M/A School.
The books were distributed through the regional representatives of the 2014 edition of TV 3’s Ghana Most Beautiful pageant: Lamine, Baci and Ruky.
Corporate responsibility
The Marketing Manager of the Samara Group of Companies, Mr Sedrick Nartey Ologo, underscored the need for the schoolchildren to be assisted with basic educational materials to enhance their studies, hence the reason for the donation to the schools nationwide.
He said the distribution formed part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to help members of the society in areas of education, health and human security.
Mr Ologo disclosed that 40,000 free exercise books had already been distributed to schoolchildren in the Brong Ahafo, Central, Western and Volta regions.
According to him, the remaining three regions – Ashanti, Eastern and Greater Accra regions would soon recieve their share of the books.
Appreciation
In an interview, the Bole District Director of Education in the Northern Region, Ms Leocadia Zakpala, who received the books, said the region had been the poorest region in terms of education, emphasising that the initiative taken by the Samara Group of Companies was laudable.
She attributed the poor performance of the children in the region to the lack of basic learning materials and adequate infrastructure.
Ms Zakpala ,therefore, appealed to other corporate institutions to extend their support to the education sector in the area to help salvage the situation.