TAMALE NGO DONATES TO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (PAGE 29, FEB 26, 2010)

Zakaria Alhassan, Savelugu.

THE Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS), a Tamale-based NGO has presented financial support to the Savelugu School for the Deaf (SAVEDEAF) in the Northern Region to help improve on effective teaching and learning at the special school.
The funds is to be channeled into providing vocational skills and in-service training for both students and tutors. It will also assist to link up the deaf trainees with business development services agencies among other areas.
The GH¢7,085 fund was realized through the support of RAINS United Kingdom development partners, Hope for Children and Molleybrown Legacy.
According to the administrator of RAINS, Mrs. Mavis Kotoka, the SAVEDEAF is one of the key partners of her outfit in reaching out to the under privileged in society.
“In selecting the SAVEDEAF, we are informed by crass social and economic discrimination against the deaf as well as the limited opportunities that are available to them,” she explained.
The administrator however acknowledged the enormous task involved in turning the challenges of the school around and therefore entreated other NGOs and civil society organizations to compliment their efforts to bring some glimmer of hope to the school.
“In this way, we shall all be joining hands to empower the powerless, strengthen the weak and provide opportunities for the deprived and ultimately help build a stronger society,” she stated.
The headmistress of the School, Mrs. Atoriyah Immaculate expressed her appreciation to their benefactors and appealed to other public-spirited organizations to come to the aid of the school, which she said was disadvantaged.
The Savelugu/Nanton District Director of Education, Madam Adrina Randilige commended RAINS for the various interventions in the educational sector, especially the girl-child and the poor.
She outlined the various pro-poor programmes earmarked for the education sector by the government and advised parents and guardians to take advantage of such initiatives by enrolling their wards, particularly girls in school.