A non-governmenta organisation (NGO) based in Accra, Bridge Effect, dedicated to promoting education in its community of operation, has presented school supplies to some schools within the Teshie Municipality to assist them in their academic work.
The donation formed part of the organisation’s ‘back-to-school’ drive aimed at alleviating the burden on parents who cannot afford basic learning materials for their children.
Items donated included pens, pencils, exercise books, backpacks, among other learning materials.
The beneficiaries included brilliant needy pupils, students of the Dar-es-Salaam Primary and some selected schools within the Teshie North Cluster of schools in Accra.
Transforming lives
At a brief ceremony to present the items, the Founder of the NGO, Abraham Nii Bortey Bortey, stated that since the inception of the organisation last year, it had championed several initiatives that sought to transform the lives of young adults and children through street outreaches, donations and other skills training and talent development initiatives.
“We hope to make the ‘Back to School Drive' an annual project where we visit beneficiary schools and take stock of the progress these children have made in their academic work and continue to offer the necessary support for them to reach their fullest potential,” he said.
He, therefore, called on donor organisations to partner his outfit so that they could support a lot of children.
“Many promising pupils and students, due to financial challenges of their parents, cannot participate in class activities and, as a result, their performance in school is affected. After this initiative, we hope to monitor their progress annually and continue to support them to reach their fullest potential,” he noted.
Appreciation
The School’s Improvement Support Officer of the Ledzokuku North Circuit, Florence Koomson, expressed her sincerest appreciation to the donors, describing the donation as one that will whip up the interest of children to learn and improve their academic performance.
“I hope that since there are 14 schools in the cluster, we will continue to receive educational supplies for all children to improve their learning,” she noted.
Mrs Koomson further called on stakeholders to support the school to put up more classrooms and provide a conducive learning space for the schoolchildren.
“We have a big piece of land that can accommodate more classrooms, yet we still run the shift system, which greatly affects students’ academic performance.
I plead with donors and other stakeholders to support the schools in the cluster with more classrooms so that we could abolish the shift system and children will have more contact hours with teachers,” she said.
