SHARE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS TEMA MANHEAN SCHOOL (OCT 5, PAGE 30)

A TEMA-BASED Christian non-governmental organisation (NGO), Share Foundation, has inaugurated a community library for the Tema Manhean TMA Junior High School.
The library, which was constructed at a cost of GH¢15,000, is stocked with books, a computer, a DVD player and other library materials. The project forms part of activities marking the foundation’s 4th anniversary celebrations.
Handing over the facility, the President of the foundation, Ms Lily Akua Mintah, said the donation was to afford children within the community an opportunity to maximise their potential.
In line with its vision of collaborating with stakeholders in all sectors to improve the lives of the less privileged in society, she said, the foundation saw the need to provide the facility for the community because the old one had deteriorated.
She was worried that reading and learning standards of schoolchildren had declined while community leaders and stakeholders in the sector looked on unconcerned and called on the students to take advantage of the facility to help build an enviable future for themselves
Ms Mintah pledged her outfit’s commitment to the development of the less fortunate youth in deprived communities across the country and appealed to the government and stakeholders in the education sector to embark on massive infrastructural development as part of measures to address the deteriorating standards in the sector.
Reverend Gilbert Amartey, the Chairman of Praise Valley Foundation based in the United Kingdom, who co-sponsored the library project, appealed to the students and teachers to make proper use of the facility and said his outfit would continue to partner Share Foundation yearly to help pupils who made strides in the improvement of their reading and writing skills.
he Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Kraku II, who received the library on behalf of the community, expressed appreciation to Share Foundation for the gesture and asked residents, students and pupils to make good use of the facility.
Nii Kraku II regretted that standards of education within the Tema Manhean community continued to decline whilst most children were dropping out of school to engage in fishing and trading activities to support themselves.
He appealled to corporate institutions within the metropolis to institute packages for brilliant needy children within the metropolis.
The foundation presented scholarships to 20 brilliant needy pupils drawn from some public basic schools within the Tema Metropolis to cover their education at the junior high school level.