The Rebecca Foundation has commissioned a library within the Lapas cluster of schools in Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti region, as part of an initiative by the First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo through the Rebecca Foundation, to provide some communities, with an ultra-modern library facility stocked with books on varied subjects as well as computers and internet facility to enable pupils and teachers engage in informative and educational internet-based research.
Commissioning the facility on behalf of the First Lady, Press Aide at the Office of the First Lady, Mr. Richard Darko said, like her husband, President Akufo-Addo, the First Lady is passionate about the empowerment of the youth through education in order to be better positioned to fully harness opportunities that the global competitive world offers.
To this end, Mr. Darko said, the First Lady has since 2017, through the Rebecca Foundation constructed libraries across the country to provide pupils and the youth in communities across the country with a conducive environment to acquire knowledge.
He said, the Rebecca Foundation has also empowered young girls and women economically and socially in the acquisition of vocational skills, provision of artisanal equipment and educational sponsorship, and is poised to do more to complement government’s effort in enhancing the well-being of the youth.
The Oti Regional Minister, Joseph Makubu said he is positive that the library facility will significantly afford pupils the opportunity improve their educational performance, and soar to higher academic and professional laurels.
The Oti Regional Director for Education Madam Georgina Mensah said the facility has come at a time when many pupils have more time on their hands to engage in extracurricular activities, and urged the pupils in the community to patronise the facility to enrich their knowledge.
Head of the Ghana Library Authority (GLA) in the Oti Region, Ebenezer Guy Amartefio, expressed the Authority’s deepest appreciation to the First Lady and the Rebecca Foundation for helping the GLA, and the Ghana Education Service, to increase access to library facilities to school children across the country.
Also present to grace the occasion were the MCE for Krachi East Hon. Patrick Charty Jilma, Chief of the Dambai Traditional Area Nana Kweku Beyenor II as well as other government officials and traditional elders.
