NGO donates to School of Deaf

The Management of CARE, a Non-Governmental Organisation, has donated 10 computers to the Demonstration School for the Deaf and Blind at Mampong-Akuapim in the Eastern Region.

Mr Jib Hagan, Global Department Director and Founder of CARE, said the donation was part of the organisation’s drive to improve Information and Communication Technology in the country.

Mr Hagan noted that the donation was to help under-resourced schools that did not get funding from the government to address their technological needs.

He said the organisation would partner with the school to participate in environmental and recycling awareness to be linked with other special needs schools in the United Kingdom for exchange programmes.

Mr Hagan said computers could make a vital difference to the lives of children in the developing world and as such through access to computers children could develop ICT skills that would dramatically improve their job prospects.

He noted that most children in Ghana graduated from school without any ICT skill adding, the donation would help the students, especially the virtually impaired,to gain ICT skills that would build a better future for them.

Mr Hagan said the NGO was established with a vision to assist in the education and development of the less privileged secondary/tertiary school student of the developing country, and to help address the environmental issues of dumping of computer waste.

He said the vision was founded on the desire to help bridge the gap between students as well as leading the way in encouraging others to responsibly manage waste in the world.

Mr Jagan said the NGO took discarded computers donated by businesses, schools and other institutions in the UK, prepared them for use by deleting the existing data and reloaded the appropriate software prior to shipment to Ghana.

Mrs Regina Danquah, Headmistress of the School, thanked the organization for the support and appealed to other corporate bodies to come to the aid of the school by supporting it financially.