SOS Children’s Villages Ghana launches education project for public schools

SOS Children’s Villages Ghana has launched a four-year project called ‘Quality Education Now’, as part of its efforts to provide quality education to Ghanaian children. The project also forms part of its community intervention efforts to extend its quality education model to deprived communities.

In a keynote address at the launch of the project at Mataheko, near Tema, the acting Deputy Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mrs Elizabeth de-Souza, expressed delight in SOS Children’s Villages’ effort to complement the work of government in the area of education.

Support

She pledged her support and that of the GES to ensure that the desired support was achieved, and called on donors and individuals to visit any of the SOS Villages, so as to become a friend of these children. She personally pledged to become a friend of the children.

SOS Children’s Villages Ghana is well noted for providing quality education in Ghana over the past 40 years through its Hermann Gmeiner Schools in Tema, Asiakwa, Kumasi and Tamale.

The National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Ghana, Mr Alexander Kekula, stressed the importance of the project, saying, “The overall objective of the project is sustainable quality education delivery through empowerment at school, community and district levels”.

He, therefore, challenged stakeholders of children’s education to put in their best so that head teachers, teachers, parent-teacher associations, circuit supervisors and community members would be able to function at the maximum potential, by the end of the next four years when the project comes to an end.

Benefit of education

He said that was necessary for the children to have the full benefit of their education.

In his address, the Chief of Mataheko, Nene Martey Kpongbagbla III, highly commended SOS Children’s Villages Ghana for its continuous effort to ensure care and support for orphans and vulnerable families in society.

He stressed that the change in the world’s system called for traditional, educational, religious and other authorities to team up with relevant partner-institutions such as SOS Children’s Villages Ghana to get a holistic education for all.

Nene Kpongbagbla assured SOS Children’s Villages Ghana of his support as well as that of his people for the project.

The Project Coordinator of ‘Quality Education Now’, Mr Bernard Amoako, asked for the kind support of all the various stakeholders to ensure a successful project.

He said the project was in tandem with the organisation’s vision of “every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security”.

Speaking to the media after the programme, the National Communications and Fundraising Advisor, Nii Commey, stressed that SOS Children’s Villages Ghana, has over the past 40 years been noted for the provision of quality long-term family-based care, adding that the child welfare organisation had been serving deprived communities across the country with more than five thousand beneficiary families.


Source: Daily Graphic