Winneba, Aug. 6, GNA - The Mbofra Foundation, a non-governmental organisation based in Accra, has presented school materials to 50 needy but intelligent children in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District as its contribution towards promoting education in the area.

The materials including school uniforms, mathematical sets, exercise books and textbook cost over 20 million cedis.

Mr Madam Esi Sutherland-Addy, Director of the Foundation, presented the materials on behalf of Madam Ruth Love, a philanthropist based in California who bough the items.

She expressed the hope that the items would encourage the beneficiary children to take their studies seriously. Mrs Sutherland-Addy, a lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, appealed to parents to invest in their children's education to enable them become useful in future. She appealed to them to educate their children on adolescent reproductive issues.

Mr. Daniel Kweku Arhin, the District Director of Education who received the materials on behalf of the children, thanked the donors and said each child would receive three uniforms, a mathematical set and five exercise books