DUTCH SCHOOL SUPPORTS NYOHINI C COMPUTER SCHOOL (PAGE 29)

STUDENTS of the Amersfoortste Berg, a secondary school in Holland, have donated computers to some deprived schools in the Tamale metropolis to support them in their Information and Communication Technology lessons.
The Savelugu School for the Deaf (SAVDEAF) received 15 computers and the Future Administrators Academy at Gurugu, 10.
The students have also agreed to sponsor 10 needy children at Nyohini, a Tamale suburb, in their education for the next five years.
The students also refurbished the Nyohini Computer School (NCS) and offered free computer services to the community.
A tutor at the Dutch school, who led the three-member team to Tamale to make the presentation, Mr Vincent Pol, said the total cost of the items including the funds for the sponsorship totalled €10,000.
He explained that the money was realised through voluntary service during which the students undertook various vocation jobs in their respective communities.
Mr Pol further indicated that their decision to support the school and students was based on information about the plight of the beneficiaries particularly the SAVDEAF whose computers, which were earlier donated by the NCS, had broken down.
The two students who accompanied Mr Pol, who is also a board member of the NCS, were Merlija Van Bokhorst and Max Mulder.
The Deputy Director of Education in charge of the Savelugu/Nanton District, Mr Moses Akwotugu, received the computers on behalf of the SAVDEAF.
The Headmistress of the school, Madam Immaculate A. Atoriyah, expressed appreciation to their benefactors for their valuable support to the special institution.
“We appeal to other individuals and philanthropic groups to complement the efforts of our foreign partners by supporting us with items and facilities that will help improve on the quality of teaching and learning in the school,” she said.
The NCS, which was established in 2004, is offering free computer training to pupils and students in the metropolis who cannot afford to enrol at the various commercial computer centres in the area.
The establishment of the school was the initiative of some Dutch volunteers and their Ghanaian collaborators.
The volunteers, Messrs Eef Bijlsma, Ruud van Soelen and Martin van Dam, decided to establish the school after they had returned home at the end of their service at the Tamale Women’s Training Institute.
The Technical Co-ordinator of the NCS, Mr Alhassan Mohammed, thanked his Dutch collaborators for their commitment and immense support to the people over the years.