Provide School Supplies Kits for Children in Ghana

EXCITING SCHOOL DAYS

Nkrumah, pictured above will be one of the beneficiaries of this project. He is a primary school pupil at Kwasu Nyinasua D/A Basic School which has about 500 students. Nkansah loves to be in shot, and will quickly run to join his friends to take their pictures. He was excited to see visitors in his school and he was even more excited to see books being offloaded from the bus.

Nkrumah lives in Kwasu Nyinasu, a Mondelez Project Community in the Ahafo Ano North District in Ghana. It is a predominantly cocoa growing community. The project team met him on a visit to donate storybooks and textbooks to his school.  Nkrumah like many other children in his school, did not have access to sufficient story books and textbooks.  Textbooks may be used on a scale of 1 book to 3 children and storybooks were hard to come by.

After school, children roamed the community visiting friends or gathering around in corners to play.

‘If no home assignments were given to them, they will only play without revising their notes. On vacations, when no homework is given, children would visit other relations or spend the entire vacation playing. This posed a challenge when they returned to school because they may have forgotten most of the things they had studied” said Mr Ebenezer, one of Nkrumah’s teachers.

The first set of books received in the school has however enhanced children’s habits of reading, and sparked a curiosity among young children like Nkrumah.

The team informed the school of the Global Giving Project on supplying school kits for children and their teacher, Mr Atta was elated. ‘Those in the lower primary like Nkrumah will enjoy school better if they have items like sketch books, copy books, crayons, pencils, items for arts and crafts among others. These will help them draw out some of the pictures they see in the books and enhance their imaginative and creativity skills. If they start like this, they will soon want to know what the pictures say, and so they will read.”

Although Nkrumah is yet to fully fall in love with reading, he may sometimes glance at a colourful book a friend may be holding. He has dreams of working in academia he is yet to discover his reason why.  ‘When I grow up, I want to be a teacher, he said. With more books and educational stationery, Nkrumah can look forward to a brighter future.

may just look at the pictures and not necessarily read unless they are supervised. We are glad to have storybooks and textbooks available because now, we can gradually nurture the habit of reading among the children. If however so that as they grow older, they will love to read. Bringing more books and needed items for school will be a great help to the young children.’ Mr Ebenezer added.