Caring Kids Sets Up Centre for Excellence

Caring Kids International , a non governmental organisation, in line with the President's vision for the youth, has established a centre of excellence which will be launched very soon by the President to give the Ghanaian youth a new reference point for excellence in education.

The centre, situated at Dzorwulu in Accra, has the idea to move the country forward, encourage children to make the right choices and also help portray Ghana in another perspective.

Nana Akosua Frimpomaa II, the founder of the organisation told the Chronicle in a exclusive interview that the centre of excellence has in place various programmes and packages ,including syndicated radio, television, and web-based internet programmes for children and the youth.

Asked why she decided to establish such a centre for youth in the country, she revealed that she toured some places in the country and found out that children are the most vuinerable in the society as they are to have access to a clean environment as well as education.

So she thought that building such a centre will help introduce them to a friendly environment and also help better their education.

To add to this, she said the centre has rooms where pictures which portray life in the country have been pasted on the walls.

Some of the pictures included children engaged in construction works, while others were found selling iced water .

One of the rooms, she said, is a library stuffed with books where children will be allowed to adopt the habit of reading and also learn how to use the computer.

Chronicle also gathered that she has formed excellence clubs in some first and second cycle schools to assist students in their resolve to focus on education and cultivate the habit that guarantees great success while in school and everywhere they join the working forces.

Notably among them are the Wesley Girls School .and the Mfantsipim School.

Her tour message during the inauguration of the clubs in the various schools was that the youth should take education as their priority and also abstain from sex as part of her AIDS campaigns.

The queenmother of Dormaa also donated books to some schools in her district who have not even seen books before so as to help them develop the habit of reading so as to better their standard of education .

She intimated to the Chronicle why she had invited the President as well as donor organisations to witness the commissioning of the centre as one to give them a sneak preview of the vision of the future Ghana as perceived by tomorrow's leaders as well as what she is doing, in order to fund the initiative or provide the centre with the necessary logistics.