By Patrick Ofoe Nudzi, GNA
Accra, Dec. 24, GNA – The Ga Mantse Foundation has donated GHS 100,000 and other school materials as scholarship to 10 basic schools in the Ga State to promote teaching and learning.
The primary schools who are in dire need of resources wrote to the Foundation and received GHS 10,000 each with hundreds of schools bags, exercise books, pencils and pens.
The ceremony, which took place at the Ga Mantse Palace in Accra, brought together over 200 pupils and teachers from Ga Mashie, Chorkor, Mamprobi, Korle Gonno, Aayaalolo and Timber Market enclaves and some education authorities and traditional leaders.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), after the event, Nii Lante Bruce, Chief Executive Officer, Ga Mantse Foundation, said, the donation was in line with the vision of King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, Ga Mantse in building a literate Ga State where every child had access to quality education.
He said the donation was part of a scholarship scheme that was rolled out by the education wing of the Foundation which was under the King’s scholarship programmes.
“The Ga Mantse Foundation has various projects. We have ICT education, health and sanitation and girl child education. We have so many projects under the Foundation. It’s our resolve that the education wing of the foundation will extend the scholarship programmes to brilliant but needy children,” Mr Bruce said.
He said the King in June this year opened the newly refurbished Mantse Tackie Tawiah Cluster of Schools as part of investments he had been making within his jurisdiction.
The CEO called on the public to support the Foundation with cash donations and materials to support children’s education.
Mrs Justin Ivy Apau, Accra Metro Director of Education, said the 200 pupils who received the two pairs of school uniform, sandals including the bags, pencils and pencils were from a poor and needy background.
She said some of the parents struggled to enroll their children in school because it was difficult to get school uniforms, adding that while some pupils wore torn uniforms to school, others absented themselves from school.
“It is important to state that the donation has created joy in the life of these children. Some come to school with polythene bags. In this 21st century, you feel inferior by putting your exercise books and textbooks in a polythene bag,” Mrs Apau said.
She said there were 71 basic schools within the Accra Metro Education Directorate with 10 primary schools being beneficiaries of the Ga Mantse’s donation, but still needed assistance for other schools.
GNA