SOS Ghana supports Zuozugu community

Management of the SOS Villages Ghana, a child welfare organization, has built and handed over a six unit classroom block to the chiefs and people of Zuozugu, a community in the Tamale Metropolis.

The facility, which will serve as a classroom for pupils of T.I-Ahamadiyya Primary School would solve part of the school authority’s challenges of curtailing teaching and learning activities whenever it rained as well as solving the high rate of school dropout.

Mr Alexander Mar Kekula, National Director of SOS Villages Ghana speaking at the handing over ceremony on Thursday, explained that the gesture was to complement government efforts towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goal II on universal primary education by the year 2015.

He said access to quality education was a fundamental right of every child and that education provided essential life skills for children to create and pursue options in life.

“The situation before now was not encouraging as most children were not attending classes due to lack of space. This also affected the performance of the children and contributed to parents’ unwillingness to send their children to school”, he said.

Zuozugu Naa, Alhassan Alhassan, thanked the management of SOS Villages Ghana for the support and encouraged parents who withdrew their children to send them back to school.

Mr Kekula was later enskined as the development chief of the community with the skin name ‘Malgunaa’ in appreciation of the infrastructural support.

Source: GNA