By Anthony Adongo Apubeo, GNA
Zebilla (U/R), Oct. 02, GNA – World Vision Ghana, a child-centred Christian organisation, has provided furniture, medical equipment and waste bins to schools and health facilities in the Bawku West and Tempane Districts to improve teaching and learning healthcare delivery.
The support included 60 mono desks for the Kpantarigu Primary School in the Bawku West District, 20 large dustbins for the Ghana Education Service in the Bawku West District and another 60 mono desks for the Bugri Primary School in the Tempane District.
The organisation also donated medical equipment, including 25 Salter weighing scales, 15 bathroom weighing scales, five infantometers, 10 child welfare clinic registers, 10 antenatal care registers, 10 postnatal care registers and 10 Urit 12 HB meters.
It also donated 20 large dustbins to the Ghana Health Service in the Bawku West District, with an additional 10 dustbins to be provided to the Zebilla District Hospital.
The donations formed part of World Vision Ghana’s New Strategy (FY26-FY30) and integrated interventions in the areas of education, healthcare and nutrition programming, aimed at creating conducive and safer school and health facility environments to enhance health delivery, teaching and learning for improved health and learning outcomes in the district.
Mr Joseph Edwin Yelkabong, the Bawku Cluster Area Programme Manager of World Vision Ghana, said the organisation’s interventions were aimed at creating conducive environments for children to thrive and improving health and education outcomes in beneficiary communities.
At the Kpantarigu Primary School, Mr Yelkabong said the decision to provide the desks followed an earlier visit to the school, during which some pupils were found sitting on the floor to learn.
He said although education had not previously been a major component of World Vision’s programming in the area, the organisation’s new strategy had created an opportunity to respond to some of the challenges confronting schools.
“Tables and chairs have always been a big problem in this district,” he said, adding that the provision of the 60 mono desks was only the beginning of the organisation’s support to education in its operational areas.
Mr Yelkabong said World Vision was also identifying other schools for support, including some earmarked for renovation and painting.
The World Vision Programme Manager said the organisation’s health intervention was also informed by joint monitoring with the Ghana Health Service, which helped to identify gaps requiring support.
At the Bugri Primary School in the Tempane district, the Ghana Education Service (GES) described the donation of 60 mono desks as a significant intervention to address the furniture deficit confronting schools in the district.
Mr Abdul-Karim Osman, the Human Resource Officer of the Tempane District Education Directorate, who received the desks, said many classrooms in the district lacked adequate furniture, with some pupils having to sit or lie on the floor to learn.
He appealed to other non-governmental organisations, philanthropists and development partners to support government efforts to address the furniture deficit.
Mr Stephen Bordotsiah, the Bawku West District Director of the Ghana Health Service, expressed appreciation to World Vision for its continued support, saying the items would augment existing resources and contribute to quality healthcare delivery in the district.
GNA
Edited by Caesar Abagali/Bertha Badu-Agyei/Benjamin Mensah
Reporter: Anthony Adongo Apubeo
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