NGO donates computers to five schools

Accra, Oct. 30, GNA - Progress in Education, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in the United States of America on Thursday presented 12 computers and other accessories worth 200 million cedis to five selected Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) in the country.

Apart from Mfantsipim SSS, which received two computers, a printer and a scanner; Mfantsiman SSS, Winneba SSS and Mankesim Secondary Technical School, all in the Central Region, and Ebenezer SSS in the Greater Accra Region received three computers each.

The Reverend Emannuel Ansah, Coordinator of the NGO in Ghana, who presented the equipments, said the old boys of Mfansipim Secondary School formed the NGO in 1980 to help promote education to further cross-cultural understanding between the two countries.

He said the organisation would not relent in its efforts to assist the education sector with equipment and facilities that would complement Government's efforts towards improving education.

The Reverend Ama Afo Blay, Director General of the Ghana Education Service, who received the items, commended the organisation and called on others to emulate them.

She also expressed the hope that the beneficiary schools would put the items to good use and ensure their maintenance.

She said the GES would provide the NGO with the lists of items needed for schools so that they would not in future buy items that might not meet the needs of GES and they would end up being wasted. She said at times organisations presented items that were not of use to the GES.

Representatives of the various schools later took delivery of their equipments.