Source: Ben LARYEA
Sung Bie’la Foundation Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has donated sets of teaching and learning materials to some schools in the Bawku Municipality of the Upper East region.
The items include exercise books, crayons, pens, pencils, new curriculum books, mathematical sets, text books, boxes of erasers, compiled past questions and answer booklets, among others.
Beneficiaries of the items are Kpeliwega JHS, Zabugu JHS, Azariya JHS, Buabula Primary and JHS, Asobelega Primary School, Watania JHS, Manga JHS, Bunduri JHS ‘A’ and ‘B’ and Kingdom of Hope orphanage.
Presenting the items to the respective schools, the Executive Director of Sung Bie’la Foundation, Poanab Hajia Zenabu Awinbe Salifu said her outfit was touched by the plight of the schools following a news item of the challenges of the schools on TV3 in Accra.
“An indigene of Bawku, the challenges of teaching and learning aids of the said schools are very worrying, and explained further that some do not have the resources to teach the students”, she added.
“I recall the days as an orphaned child being supported to acquire basic education and by the grace of Allah the generousity from other individuals have brought a change in my life therefore the foundation will also put a smile on the faces of the students”, she said.
The Executive Director indicated that education will help the students to discover their potentials in life and however urged them live up their goals and dreams in acquiring talents and skills to enhance their destiny in the future.
The Foundation, she said will also support 20 needy but brilliant students who will excel in the next Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to further education to the Senior High School level, saying the beneficiaries must score an aggregate of 10 to 15.
According to her, the Foundation will support them with chop boxes, footwear, learning materials, among others and pointed out that it has sponsored 2 less privileged students from Zabugu and are reading science at the Bolgatanga Senior High School and have further supported 3 visually-impaired students in Bawku and are currently pursuing a course at the University of Ghana”, she said.
In another development, the Foundation counselled teenage girls at the school they visited on menstrual hygiene and donated sanitary pads to them with support from Lexta Ghana Limited and thanked workers from Lands Commission and Lions Club International for supporting the Foundation in cash and in kind and however called on other corporate bodies to support its charity works across the country.
The Heads of the school expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the Foundation for the immense support and urged other benevolent societies and corporate bodies to emulate the shining example of the Foundation.
