Winneba, May 27, GNA - The Ghana Library Board in collaboration with the American Embassy in Ghana has started a programme to inculcate the habit of reading in children in some deprived basic schools in the Effutu Municipality.

Mr Thomas C. Brown, Head of Cataloging Department of the Ghana Library Board, said this when he briefed children of the four schools in the Municipality on Tuesday. The schools are Essuekyir Methodist Primary, African Christian Mission Primary, Ansanrudeem Islamic Primary and Winneba Municipal Assembly Primary.

Mr Brown urged the children to improve upon their reading skills so as improve on their academic work to become good scholars. Mr Brown said that his visit to the schools indicated that the reading ability of the children in those schools are far low that of their counterparts in the cities, adding, however, that the programme was instilling confidence in the ability of the children. Mrs Bernice Kuttin-Nuamah, Coordinator of the American Corner at the Ghana Library Board, called for effective supervision on the part of the teachers and pupils.

She noted that compared to children from other parts of the country where similar outreach programmes had been organised, the standard of children in the Municipality was very low. Mrs Kuttin-Nuamah, therefore, appealed to stakeholders in education in the area to help reverse the situation.