Accra, July 16, GNA – To support Information
Communication and Technology (ICT) studies in schools within host communities
of AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Gold Mine, 55 desktop computers worth
GH¢152,626.00 were presented to various schools at a short ceremony on Tuesday.
The beneficiary schools included Wangarakrom/
Badukrom JHS, Teberebie JHS, Adieyie JHS, New Techiman Early Childhood
Development Centre, Akempim and Bankyim JHS, Abomponiso JHS and New Tokunaso
Early Childhood Development Centre.
The donation comes on the heels of an
assessment of basic education improvement project in partnership with the mine,
which revealed that some teachers and schools were not adequately equipped with
ICT skills to impart knowledge to pupils whereas some pupils had not have the
opportunity to see a computer making it difficult for them to relate to what is
being taught in their respective classrooms.
Managing Director of Iduapriem Gold Mine,
Jasper Musadaidzwa said, the Mine, would continue to partner with stakeholders
in addressing the infrastructural needs to leave its host communities with a
sustainable future in the areas of health, education and sanitation.
Thanking the mine for its numerous
interventions in its host communities and the municipality at large, the
Municipal Chief Executive for Tarkwa Nsuaem, Mr Gilbert Kennedy Asmah
emphasised that the mine’s intervention was in line with government’s agenda of
Nation Builder’s Corps under the Digitize Ghana project.
“The study of ICT is paramount in our basic
schools, which forms the foundation and so the mine will be given the support
to roll out more of such interventions.”
He urged companies operating in the area to
emulate Iduapriem Gold mine.
Presenting the Computers to the Municipal
Chief Executive, the Board Chair of AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Community Trust
Fund, Professor Newton Amegbey urged the teachers to put in their best to
ensure that there was significant improvement in ICT pass rate in the B.E.C.E
examination.
Receiving the items on behalf of the Municipal
Education Director, Municipal HR Director Charles Darko Mensah thanked AGA for
its continuous support and assured the mine and its partners that his outfit
would increase supervision of students and the use of the computers.
GNA