By Victoria Agyemang
Cape Coast, Feb 27, GNA – Rythm Foundation, a social impact organization, in partnership with the Anopa Project have handed over two constructed pathways and a Polytank to two special schools within Cape Coast.
The beneficiary schools were Ghana National Inclusive School and Aboom Special School.
Ghana National Inclusive School got a resurfaced pathway leading to the dormitories and hostels, which had been dangerous and inaccessible, especially for the blind students.
Aboom Special School received a Polytank, as part of the project’s efforts to solve the persistent water crisis.
The project makes a significant difference in ensuring safe and easy access for both blind and sighted students at the Ghana National Inclusive School.
Rythm Foundation, through volunteering activities seeks to invest in human development programmes to empower lives and transform communities under its infrastructural enhancement programme.
The provision of the facilities forms part of Rythm Foundation’s three-year project to create a more inclusive and compassionate environment where every student could navigate their way to success.
Mr. Ernest Appiah, the Executive Director for the Anopa Project noted that the project was to improving lives for special children to enable them to build their confidence and be more comfortable around people.
“Our projects seek to encourage the children to associate with each other to help them achieve their potentials,” he said.
Mr. Appiah pledged the commitment of the Foundation to ensure that special schoolchildren enjoyed access to quality education to help elevate the burden on parents and teachers.
Mrs. Phyllis Asante-Krobea, the Cape Coast Metro Director of Education expressed gratitude to the donors and urged the staff to be more tolerant and patient in grooming children with special needs.
She gave an assurance that best management practices would be adopted to ensure a longer lifespan of the pathways and the water tanks.
However, she called on philanthropists and NGOs to assist in providing quality education for children with special needs to help them harness their full potentials and contribute their quota to the social economic development of the country.
For her part, Madam Pobana Herusan, the Senior Project Executive at Rhythm Foundation, expressed their readiness to help bridge the gap in developing inclusivity among students.
The project, she stated, included the establishment of an ICT laboratory, upgrade of classrooms, re-moulding of the schools and equipping teachers with training to build their development skills in educating the students.
The students thanked the donors for the gesture and appealed for more support to help them realise their dreams.
GNA