By
Bright Ofori Asiamah, GNA
Esipon (WR), Oct.13,
GNA – Personnel of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) in the Western region,
have donated items worth more than GH¢2,000.00 to the Sekondi twin-city special
school for the mentally handicapped at Essipon near Sekondi.
The donation, which
formed part of their one year anniversary celebration, had items including a
bag of maize, bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil and toilet rolls, among
others.
Mr. Kelvin
Doku-Bello, the NABCO Metro coordinator, said the school was chosen upon
consultation with the Regional NABCO coordinator and the executives to give
back to society.
He said the NABCO
programme was an opportunity given to all personnel by the President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to create employment avenues for more than a 100, 000 youth
nationwide, out of which a little over 6,000 were from the Western Region.
Mr. Doku-Bello
explained that the scheme was to help shape and train personnel on the job to
gain employment and better their lives in the years ahead.
Madam Agnes
Frimpomaah, assistant headmistress of the school who received the items said
the items came at a time they needed them badly, and thanked the personnel for
the wonderful gesture.
Madam Frimpomaah
said though the school was being catered
for by the government, such support from other institutions and individuals
were very helpful, and urged NABCO personnel to “sell the school to
corporate institutions and
individuals” to come to their aid since the government could not do it
alone.
She noted with
concern that some parents failed to pick up their children on vacation,
abandoning them in the school, which she said was a major challenge to the
school.
She explained that
due to the lack of accommodation for teachers on campus, teachers would have to
travel from afar and appealed for the completion of the teacher’s bungalow,
which had been left uncompleted for the past five years.
Madam Frimpomaah
mentioned the lack of basic teaching materials, inadequate staff and fuel to
run the school bus, as some of the challenges facing the school.
Mr. Paul Dekyi the
Western Regional Nabco Coordinator, said children were gift from God and that
they needed to be taken good care of to become useful citizens in the society.
He urged parents not
to neglect nor reject their children because of their disabilities but rather
show them love and affection because that is all that they need from parents,
and the society as a whole.
GNA
