By Comfort Sena Fetrie -Akagbor
Kpadjai (N/R), Oct 14, GNA – Camfed Ghana Association (CAMA) has donated learning and teaching materials worth GHc8,269.00 to the Kpadjai Number One Roman Catholic Junior High School in the Kpandai District of the Northern Region.
The items included 440 exercise books, 86 notebooks, 86 graph books, 86 mathematical sets, 350 boxes of pens, 24 boxes of chalk and 200 menstrual pads.
They were to help ensure quality teaching and learning in the area.
The items were donated when a team from CAMA joined the school to mark this year’s International Day of the Girl Child.
Madam Fairuza Safian, National Director, Camfed Ghana, speaking during the event, advised girls to take their studies seriously to enable them to become great leaders in their communities.
She urged girls to be alert not to be pushed into early marriage and focus on achieving their dreams of becoming development leaders to reduce poverty in society.
Nana Akua Hemma Kanyitey, Queen Mother of Kpadjai expressed gratitude to CAMA for the support for students in Kpadjai community, especially girls.
She called on stakeholders and other institutions to support the people in the area to fight pre-marital sex which she indicated resulted in rising teenage pregnancies.
GNA