New Edubiase (Ash), July 8, GNA – Cologne Meet Ghana Project, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Cologne, Germany, has donated furniture and learning materials to the Amenaso District Assembly Primary School, at New Edubiase in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region.
The items included 200 higher standard chairs, 100 tables, one large chalk board and one media locker.
Amenaso with about 500 inhabitants is one of the remotest community in the Adansi South District without electricity, portable drinking water, toilets with bad road network, making life uncomfortable for the people, especially the Junior High School students who had to walk seven kilometres to school at a town called Wuruyie.
Mr Justice Amarlai Tetteh, a representative of the NGO in Ghana, who presented the items, said the donation followed the observation of the pathetic situation of the community, especially of the schoolchildren by a member of the organization and gave the assurance of the support to the school.
He said the Chairman of the Cologne Meet Ghana Project in Germany, Mr Andreas Krunz, who is also a Journalist with Reuters was in Ghana for holidays and located the village, hence his social support for them, particularly in education of the children.
Mr Tetteh said the assistance was one of the NGO’s objectives to improve standard of education of the less privileged through the provision of logistics.
He urged the inhabitants to take advantage of the donation to enrol their children in the school.
He commended the teachers of the beneficiary school for their patriotism and called on parents to contribute their quota to the teaching and learning of the children, while urging the District Assembly to provide the community with basic amenities.
Alhaji Hussein Haruna Nkansah, a Director at the Adansi South District Assembly who received the items on behalf of the school, said the gesture had come at an opportune time to assist the Assembly in the supply of furniture to schools in the District.
He said this would allow the Assembly to target the completion of a new classroom block being constructed to facilitate teaching and learning of the schoolchildren of Amenaso.
Alhaji Haruna Nkansah urged the people to offer themselves in the population census exercise.
Nana Akwasi Kotei Nfram III, Ankobeahene of Dompoase, near Amenaso expressed worry about the lack of basic amenities such as electricity, water, and junior high school, which compelled the children to walk seven kilometres daily to school.
He also expressed concern about the bad nature of their roads, which had forced drivers to withdraw their services to the communities and appealed to the District Assembly to bring development to the area.
Mr Adams Abdul Salam, the Member of Parliament for New Edubiase extend gratitude to the NGO for the gesture to promote education in the area.