By
Opesika Tetteh Puplampu, GNA
Akplabanya Sege,
(GAR) Nov. 21, GNA – The Kingdom Lifestyle Mission (KLM) has rolled-out
“Supplementary Education,” for the underprivileged children to support formal
classroom work.
Pastor Alex Gyasi, a
Senior Pastor of Highway of Holiness Church in London who is leading the KLM
project in Ghana said, Supplementary Education which offersed the pupils with
extra class hours at the weekend can make a big difference in the pupils’
educational lives irrespective of their environment.
He said, this
initiative seeks to boosts the educational background of the child and as a
result.
He said the Church
has received positive indications from schools globally to the benefit of the
project, “we are making positive impact on the lives of the pupils, as a
result, more pupils continue to enrol unto the programme”.
Speaking to the
Ghana News Agency at Akplabanya, a fishing community in the Ada West District
after interacting with about 200 children who were beneficiaries of the
project, Pastor Gyasi said, “What we do is that we go and mobilise
university students to go and teach the underprivileged children in the
communities free of charge every Saturday.
“We offer them
transportations from their campuses to come, we provide lunch for both the
Teachers and Children, support with all the stationaries, books every Saturday
free of charge. The children are not charged”.
“We have been doing
it in Ghana, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Bulgaria and we are intending to expand the
project even more in Ghana; we believe that Supplementary Education can make a
big difference in the pupil’s lives,” he said.
He said, the
volunteers were given references, which after university, they could use as
work experience.
He said recruiting
and getting the right core teachers to be consistent all year round to help
every Saturday was their major challenge.
The Highway House
began in 2009 through feeding two homeless men in London and has ever since
sheltered over 850 people from over 60 nationalities.
It provides shelter
for people from the most vulnerable groups in society including; those without
recourse to public funds, the mentally ill and those who are recovering from
treatment from hospital and would otherwise have been discharged unto the
streets.
This initiative has
been in Ghana for about five years now and has supplementary education at some
deprived communities in the country at weekends.
GNA
