THE Needy African Child Foundation (NACIF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has constructed a library for the Gomoa–Dasum Primary and Junior High Schools in the Central Region.
The GH¢11,000 project was financed by the foundation with a $5,000 grant from US-based Motorola Foundation. The Cambridge Public Library in the USA donated books and other teaching aids to equip the project.
The facility was named after the late Isaac Justice Sarkwah, a founder member of the NGO and native of the community, who passed on in the course of providing humanitarian assistance to the community.
Speaking at the inauguration of the project at a ceremony at Gomoa-Dasum, the Executive Director of the foundation, Mrs Josephine Deh, said the facility was provided to help raise literacy levels among schoolchildren.
According to her, NACIF as a charitable institution was committed to the academic performance among schoolchildren in deprived communities.
“We intend replicating similar projects in very deprived communities within the three northern and the Volta regions as part of initiatives aimed at reducing poverty through education in selected communities,” Mr Deh stated.
She paid glowing tribute to the Motorola Foundation for its continuous support for the activities of the foundation and challenged the community to fully utilise the facility towards the reduction of poverty.
The Nkosuohene of Gomoa-Dasum, Nana Kofi Otabil I, who received the facility on behalf of the school, commended the foundation for the gesture.
He called on the government and well-meaning Ghanaians to extend support to the community, as the citizens had been living in abject poverty due to neglect.
The Needy African Child Foundation, which was established in 2000, had over the years provided assistance to the underprivileged through the provision of educational scholarship schemes.
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