.. Through Danish NGO
Accra, July 11, GNA - A Danish-based Non-Governmental Organization has donated educational materials, including school furniture, computer accessories, printers, scanners, teaching aids, sport items as well as orthopaedic and clinical equipment worth over GH¢ 40,000 to selected schools and medical centres in the Akuapem traditional area. The donations are part of efforts by a Ghanaian resident in Denmark, Mr Kwame Owusu Danquah to help educational institutions and other community projects in the Akuapem traditional area. "We want to help the average Ghanaian child to take advantage of, especially the computer, to enhance learning, socialization and communication skills," he told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Friday.

Mr Owusu Danquah noted that many schools in Ghana had no computers and expressed the hope that with the little support from his NGO, Computer Aid to Ghana, more students in Ghana would be introduced to Information Communication Technology.

"In our spare time, members of Computer Aid to Ghana from Denmark (cagh.dk) collect used computers and other useful equipment from Danish firms and educational institutions which we refurbish, pack and ship for distribution to schools in Ghana."

Mr Owusu Danquah said the NGO's activities which are financed by the Danish Association for International Co-operation, an organization which administers funding of smaller projects in developing countries for DANIDA, would gradually be extended to the whole of the Eastern Region.

Mr. Kofi Ofosu Appiah, Coordinator of the Dasani Initiative Foundation, an Akuapem-based NGO instituted by Osahene Offei Kwasi Agyeman IV, Krontihene of the Akuapem Traditional Area, who received the items thanked members of Computer Aid to Ghana and said the items would be fairly distributed to schools and selected medical centres in the area.

He said Dasani Initiative Foundation existed to help empower the youth in the traditional areas and urged other organizations to support such gestures. 11 July 08