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Airtel Ghana has promised to provide the only primary school in
Kanjaga at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana, with teaching
and learning materials as well as ICT equipment.
The promise was made during the recent episode of the ongoing Airtel
Touching Lives season three.
Kanjaga is a community where the pupil-teacher ratio is estimated at
1,000 to one, and girls in that community as simply not encouraged to
go to school.
Inhabitants of Kanjaga are mostly peasant farmers, and in spite of
their hard work, the area is highly impoverished.
The town is woefully bereft of proper schools as the few ones found
there are nothing to write home about.
Airtel Ghana therefore announced it would stock the ICT centre of the
only primary school in the community with computers and accessories.
This, according to Airtel, is in appreciation of the selfless efforts
of the few teachers in the school.
Additionally, pupils of the school will benefit from teaching and
training in ICT and receive books and learning materials to facilitate
their education.
The beneficiaries of the assistance from Airtel Touching Lives said
they were energised by the gesture to "even do more for the children
and by extension the community."
The recent episode also featured the Physiotherapy Department of the
Central Regional Hospital, which is also set to receive support from
Airtel Touching Lives, having been nominated by Daniel Osei Twumasi, a
teacher whose third born was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, a disorder
which involves the brain and nervous system.
The department is understaffed, and does not have space and the
requisite equipment to carry out rehabilitation of persons with
malfunctioning body parts.
Airtel Touching Lives has therefore promised to donate some
Physiotherapy equipment to the department so they can handle cases
more effectively.
Beyond that gesture, Mr Twumasi was also presented with some play
things which will aid his son to get active again.
Airtel promised that it Airtel Touching Lives programme will continue
to encourage Ghanaians to seek to change their communities and their
own lives for the better.
Those who are supported under the initiative are usually nominated by
anyone who thinks the person awarded deserves to be commended. It can
be a family member, a colleague, a friend or even a community.
"One can nominate a school but there needs to be a person behind the
nomination. We can award a dream to the school but we need to know
what the individuals behind the school have done to make the school
special," the Telco points out.
After the nomination, the Airtel "Touching Lives" team visits the
nominees in their communities to interact with them and finally invite
them into the "Airtel Touching Lives" studio where they are presented
with their rewards.
Airtel Touching Lives is an annual television programme which helps
identify people who have excelled in life in spite of challenging
circumstances, as well as people who have helped to bring about
changes in communities they live in.
The current season of Airtel Touching Lives is theme "make your change".
It shows on Multi TV (Joy News) on Friday, Multi TV (Cine Afrik, Joy
TV, Hitz TV, Adom TV) on Saturday and on other TV stations.
Credit: Myjoyonline
