Story: Zakaria Alhassan, Tamale
BARCLAYS Bank Ghana has presented quantities of learning materials to schoolchildren from five zones in the Savelugu/Nanton District of the Northern Region.
The items included 700 parcels containing books, pens, toys, clothing, candies and some cash.
Samaritan’s Purse, a child-centred humanitarian organisation in the United States, donated the items through the initiative of the bank.
The bank also added large quantities of its branded exercise books to be given to the excited pupils, majority of whom come from rural communities in the district.
According to the Communications Manager of the bank, Mr Gayheart Mensah, his outfit paid for the shipment of the items into the country as part of its social responsibility to the people.
‘‘We have over the years intervened in various sectors including health and education at parts of the country in response to the needs of the people whose interests are central in everything we do,’’ he said.
He advised the beneficiaries of the items to make maximum use of the package and those who had received letters from their counterparts in the donor country to endeavour to respond, as by doing that they could establish relationships that could have long-term benefits.
The Deputy Director of Education in charge of Human Resource in the district, Mr Moses Akwotugu, said many parents in the area were subsistence farmers and noted that such interventions could help increase enrolment of children in the district.
He, however, advised parents and guardians to ensure that all children of school age were not only enrolled but allowed to continue with their education to any level of their choice.
A beneficiary, Ayishetu Adam, on behalf of other beneficiaries, thanked the management of the bank for the support and promised to study hard to become responsible citizens in future.
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