PUPILS of Oyibi Presbyterian Primary School have benefited from a $12,000 donation known as ‘blue packs’ by the Bessblock Concrete Products Limited at Oyibi in the Greater Accra Region.
The donation sought to help improve the education of the pupils in the community.
It was also part of the company’s corporate social responsibility which is expected to be extended to other communities.
The blue packs which contained pens, pencils, crayons, rulers, exercise books, erasers and sharpeners were to help motivate the children to be punctual at school and to promote continuity in learning.
The Managing Director of Bessblock, Mrs Regina Botchwey, said the presentation was to promote community growth and development.
If parents and educators could cultivate good habits and develop productive patterns of behaviour for children in their care, those children will be on their way to achieving great educational successes, she advised.
The Executive Director of the Academy for Educational Development Ghana: Centre for Educational Development, Evaluation and Management (AED-Ghana: (CEDEM), a non governmental organisation, Mr Stephen Yaw Manu, called on parents to provide supplementary reading books for their children in order to inculcate the habit of reading in them.
By doing this, he said, children would ‘learn to read and read to learn’.
Shell Ghana also used the occasion to donate 900 books to the school’s library.
The Tema Metropolitan Director of Education, Mr Kwesi Hutchful, advised the parent teacher association (PTA) to support the school and teachers.
The Regional Manager of the Presbyterian Education Unit, Rev. (Mrs) Victoria Kai Wayoe, said the Government, as the major stakeholder in education, had taken the lead role in providing free school uniforms, books and food among others, to support the education of schoolchildren in the country.
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