By Mohammed Awal,
As part of its primary focus to improve literacy in rural Ghana, Connecting Kids Educational Foundation (CKEF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has constructed and handed over a four-unit-classroom block with ancillary facilities to St. Peters Methodist Church, Kisse Besease, a farming community in the Central Region.
The project, which cost GH¢170, 000 was initiated by CKEF, and sponsored by Voltic Ghana Limited, DHL Ghana Limited, Data Bank Ghana, Allied Oil, and Carr Green Primary School in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom (UK), and is expected to benefit pupils of the St. Peter’s Methodist School.
The Superintendent Minister, Reverend F. Yawson, who blessed and helped inaugurate the project at Kisse Besease, said the aim of the church (St. Peter’s Methodist) was not only to preach the word of God, but also develop the potentials of the people through education.
He commended the CKEF for the initiative, and appealed to other organisations to emulate the gesture to assist the church provide quality education to the community.
Ellen Blamires, President of CKEF, said that the project had been an ideal transformational one that fell directly in tandem with the foundation’s vision, which was to support literacy and improve infrastructure at the basic education level in rural disadvantaged communities.
She described the successful completion of the project as crucial to ensuring the “broad-based” development of pupils of St. Peter’s Methodist School, saying that showed that good ideas could be translated into realities to improve lives of the destitute on a sustainable basis.
This, she mentioned, meant “ensuring that all pupils are able to develop their cognitive, social, emotional, cultural and physical skills to the best of their abilities, and preparing them for their further school careers.”
Blamires made these observations in a statement read on her behalf by the Advisor to the CKEF, Reynold Obeng-Antwi.
Uplifting Impoverished Communities
Tony Abban, District Sales Manager of Voltic (GH) Limited, described the occasion as a great milestone in the lives of the people of Kisse Besease, pupils of St. Peters Nursery School, and Connecting Kids Education Foundation.
He said the project underpinned his outfit’s ambition to create a thriving world for their business, and also for the communities in which they operate.
“Our focus is on the positive transformation and uplifting of communities, by supporting basic education, health and social development,” stressed Abban.
He said Voltic resolved to support CKEF in delivering quality education to the impoverished rural setup, because they believed that education was needed to permanently do away with poverty in such communities.
Abban also used the platform to enumerate some of the works Voltic Limited did in that regard. He said over the years, Voltic Limited had invested heavily in various initiatives that related directly to the core areas they sought to support.
Some of these investments, he mentioned, were the provision of lap desks to children in deprived schools, provision of medical equipment and renovation of a clinic at Nyameani in the Ashanti Region among others.
Robert Koomson-Barnes, Deputy Director of Education the KEEA, said “education is a legacy that no one should take from the child.”
The chief and elders of the area thanked the CKEF for the kind gesture.