THE Baptist Child Development organisation, a Christian-based NGO, has assisted eight deprived basic schools and two health posts in the Tolon/Kumbungu District of the Northern Region with rain water harvesting tanks and other water usage facilities valued at GH¢54,000.
The beneficiary schools and clinics are: Wantugu Junior High School, Tolon DA Primary ‘B’ and ‘A’, Sheshegu Primary, and Junior High School and Lingbun Gundaa Methodist Primary, as well as Kasuliyili and Wantugu clinics.
The programme co-ordinator of the organisation, Mr James Amadu Kinyakib, who made the presentation at Sheshegu, a farming community in the Tolon/Kumbungu District of the Northern Region, explained that the poor performances recorded in most deprived basic schools in the district could partly be blamed on water scarcity in the area.
According to him, there are incidences where pupils leave the classroom for home only to search for drinking water after which they often fail to return to the classroom.
Mr Kinyakib, therefore, explained that his organisation’s intervention in the provision of water is to encourage pupils to stay in the class to learn.
He also attributed the poor academic performance to the lack of adequate teaching and learning infrastructure and facilities such as libraries, books, classroom blocks, furniture and trained teachers.
The co-ordinator stressed the importance of water to sustainable livelihood and appealed to other organisations to come to their aid to reach out to more deprived pupils to realise their dreams through education.
The Country Director of CCFC, Mrs Sanatu Nantogma, stressed the importance of child health to their development.
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