Tamale NGO supports 233 needy students

Tamale, Feb. 27, GNA - The Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), a Tamale-based international NGO dedicated to offering humanitarian support to needy children and their communities, has supported 233 brilliant, but needy students with full scholarships to complete Senior High and tertiary institutions.

The scholarship included paying of full school fees, buying educationa= l materials and purchasing of provisions until they complete Senior High Schools, which amounted to GH¢20,230.08 for the first year. Two hundred (200) out of the number are entering Senior Schools while the rest have gained admissions into Polytechnics and the training colleges to pursue various courses.

Madam Sanatu Nantogmah, Country Director of CCFC, who announced the package in Tamale, said her outfit would continue to support as many children as possible to better their lives in all CCFC operational communities.

She said CCFC was working in 13 districts of the Northern Region in areas of education, health and sanitation improvement and instituting measures to address poverty in the north. CCFC, he said, hoped its operation would soon spread to all 20 districts in the region.

She said CCFC created future of hope for children, families and communities by helping them to develop the skills and resources to overcome poverty. She said her outfit had also sponsored many people to complete the training colleges, who had now become trained teachers and were serving in schools in communities where CCFC was supporting.

Mr Abebaw Assefa, Operations Manager of CCFC Ghana, commended CCFC-Ghana for its educational programme, especially the training of volunteer teachers who were helping to improve rural education. He said the Ghana programme had given a glimmer of hope for children and that he had learnt that some students had completed nursing training, while 62 voluntee r teachers had also finished training colleges under CCFC sponsorship.

He said Ghana was peaceful and commended the country's leaders for ensuring such an environment, saying 93We will all continue to refer to Gh= ana as a model of peace". Mr Assefa advised the beneficiary children to take their studies seriously to justify the scholarship so that it would encourage the NGO to continue to give support to other students.