The Fon Group, a leading manufacturing group, donated 6,000 copies of Note 1 exercise books to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, for onward distribution to basic schools across the country, particularly those in deprived communities.
The donation, made at the head office of GETFund in Accra, was made under the GETFund Education Financing and Partnership Initiative (EFPI), a flagship programme aimed at bridging the funding gap in the education sector.
The initiative, introduced by the current Administrator of the fund, Paul Adjei, seeks to partner the private sector to solicit support, both in cash and in kind, to complement the government’s efforts at delivering quality education.
Under the arrangement, the books will be distributed to selected basic schools based on a needs assessment conducted by GETFund, with schools in deprived areas given priority.
Receiving the items, Mr Adjei expressed profound gratitude to the Fon Group for the gesture, saying the intervention would help mitigate a major challenge confronting teaching and learning in many basic schools where pupils lack basic learning materials.
“This donation will go a long way to ensure that the Ghanaian child has access to quality education. We are grateful to the Fon Group for this demonstration of commitment to education,” he said.
The administrator used the occasion to appeal to private institutions, corporate bodies and international organisations to emulate the example of the Fon Group and support GETFund’s drive to improve education delivery in the country.
For his part, the Founder of the Fon Group, Fredrick Osafo Ntim, said his outfit was moved by the alarming deficit in educational resources in many schools.
He described the situation where pupils would go to school without exercise books as worrying and inimical to effective teaching and learning, hence the decision to intervene through GETFund.
The General Manager and Key Leader of the Fon Group, Emmanuel Osei Ntim, stressed that the responsibility of fixing the deficit could not be left to the government alone, adding that the donation would not be the last as he pledged to continue to do more to support quality education in Ghana.
The EFPI has, in recent months, seen a surge in private sector participation, with many corporate entities donating learning materials, infrastructure and financial support to GETFund to support its mandate.
