Accra, July 24, GNA – A six unit-classroom block has been inaugurated for the Klo Agogo Anglican Basic school in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region after numerous appeals to end teaching and learning in a dilapidated structure.
The classrooms were built purposely for the Nursery, Kindergarten One and Two as a distinct department and Basic One, Two and Three as another department to end the tradition of living at the mercies of the sun and rain.
The structures were put up together with a sanitation facility and inaugurated by Pencils of Promise Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation to mark their 10th anniversary grand durbar supported by Albert Tetteh Nyakotey, Member of Parliament for the Yilo Krobo Constituency
The durbar, which drew stakeholders including directors from the Eastern Regional and Yilo Krobo Municipal Educational Directorates, Principals of Colleges of Education, chiefs and opinion leaders was themed: “Ten years of empowering communities through quality education.”
Delivering his inaugural speech, Mr Freeman Gobah, Ghana Country Director, Pencils of Promise, said: “we believe every child should have access to quality education and we do this by creating schools, programmes in communities around as a common goal for education.”
The classrooms which had been furnished with desks and pictorial materials for learning are expected to accommodate 250 learners
“We are committed to building schools and increasing educational opportunities for learners in underserved communities in Ghana, Laos and Guatemala,” he said.
Mr Gobah said they had partnered local governments and communities to impact not only pupils and students but teachers and parents in these countries to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) four.
He said since 2012 in Ghana, they had completed 194 school projects with auxiliary facilities in the volta, Eastern and Oti Regions and in all put up 589 schools globally, serving over 200,000 learners.
The Country Director urged the administrators, teachers and the communities to maintain the edifice for current and unborn generations.
He also called on parents not to invest in their children’s education for a better future.
Mr Seth Kwame Acheampong, Eastern Regional Minister, who was the Guest Speaker commended the initiative, adding that Pencils of Promise’s mission to create access to quality education resonated well with the SDG 4 and Government policy.
“Bridging educational inequalities by making quality education accessible to all has become a possibility through the efforts of Government, private institutions, NGOs and individuals,” he said.
Mr Acheampong said the Government had opened its educational doors and would welcome anyone with expertise and resources to support the Government vision since it cannot carry the burden of education alone.
Mr Albert Tetteh Nyakotey, Member of Parliament for the Yilo Krobo Constituency, under whose tutelage the classrooms were built, said, obsolete educational facilities among other challenges in the constituency were his priority to fix.
“Bearing in mind that education is the surest way of securing the future of our young ones I sought to intervene in the quality of learning which requires good educational infrastructure,” the MP said.
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