Melcom Care Foundation has handed over 10 fully well-designed modern washrooms to two Basic Schools at Sogakope in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region.
Each of the beneficiary schools: Tefle District Assembly Junior (DA) High and Sokpoe District Assembly Junior High received five each of the automated facilities plus some toiletries.
Addressing a durbar organized by both the teachers and students of the beneficiary schools at their respective campuses for the handing at Tefle and Sokpoe, the Director of Communications at Melcom Group, Godwin Avenorgbo, emphasized that, the project is strictly a community development initiative not a PR or Marketing Event, because “the nearest Melcom Shop from this town is at Aflao to the east and Tema to the west covering long travel distances”.
According to him, their Group Chairman, Bhagwan Khubchandani has always insisted that the goal of the project is to enhance sanitation and hygiene practices among children of school going age regardless of how remote those schools are.
“We are here therefore, to be a blessing to the Township, District, Ghana Education Service, the Church which hitherto had a hand in the running of the Schools in this area, the Teachers, Parents and most importantly the future servants of the state… The Children who are the direct beneficiaries of our Melcom Care Foundation School Washroom Project”, he added.
First phase of the Projects will provide a minimum of 64 washroom cubicles for 19 schools in the Primary, JHS, SHS and Tertiary levels of Education in 9 Regions across Ghana.
Meanwhile, the Group Chairman Khubchandani has given an assurance of extending the project to remaining Regions after the installation and handing over of the 64 cubicles in this first phase.
He used the opportunity to advise teachers to take good care of the facilities and clean them every one hour to preserve its quality standards for them to last longer.
On behalf of the Schools, the South Tongu District Director of Education; Araba Zente expressed her profound gratitude to the Melcom Group of Companies.
She appealed for the same support to be extended to other deprived schools under her jurisdiction because, “a lot of schools here don’t even have Kumasi Ventilated-Improved Pit (KVIP) and this is affecting teaching and learning especially the female students”.
Story filed by: Edzorna Francis Mensah
