WORLD VISION SUPPORTS FORMAL EDUCATION IN SEKYERE EAST DISTRICTS

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To help improve on reading instructions and skills in deprived communities in the country, World Vision Ghana has handed over ICT equipment valued at 144 thousand 540 Ghana Cedis to the Ghana Education Service for distribution to two communities in the Sekyere East District of Ashanti. 

The communities are Okaikrom and Odurokrom. The items include tablets, pie transmitters, printers, laptops, and projectors. 

The project is an extension of a similar one started in 2013 in the district with a collaborative effort between the World Vision Ghana and Open Learning Exchange, a local reading content developer. 

 In an address, an Education Specialist at the World Vision Ghana, Andrew Ofosu-Dankyi said the reading base at the first five critical years of a child’s schooling is crucial to determining the child’s success in school and in life. 

As a result, World Vision will work hard to improve on reading outcomes among children and ultimately ensure the well-being of children including the most vulnerable.

 The Effiduase Area Development Programme Manager of World Vision Ghana, Madam Ama Nabere said in the last three years, her office has invested over one-point-two million Dollars on projects in healthcare delivery and in education, to improve the well being of children. 

The District Director of Education, Nana Otuo Acheampong said the recent Early Grade Reading Assessment results show that children are not reading in schools, describing the situation as worrying.

 He asked the beneficiary schools to take very good care of the equipment. 

 Read Ghana is a project aimed at improving reading through technology-based, cost-effective innovations from the global science, and broader development in three focus areas. 

They are, mother tongue instructions and reading materials, family and community engagement with emphasis on children with disabilities. 

The project brings over three thousand stories to children through a digital library that they can access on their tablets in the classroom.

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