Obuasi, Dec. 16, GNA - The management of the Odotobri Rural Bank with its headquarters at Jacobu in the Amansie East District on Monday donated three 21-inch colour television sets to the Adansi West District Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) towards the organisation of the district's best teacher awards ceremony. Mr G.F. Opoku, Supervising Manager and Mr J.K. Ntredu, Board Chairman, jointly presented the television sets valued at 7.5 million cedis on behalf of the bank.

Mr Opoku said the bank viewed education as the engine of growth and development hence its commitment to assist in educational programmes.

He said the donation was intended to help boost dedicated services from teachers who were key factors in the proper training of the youth. The Supervising Manager said the bank was optimistic that the support to the directorate would influence teachers to perform to improve academic standards.

Mr Opoku added that Odotobri would continue to assist in other areas to improve the lot of the people within its operational area. Mr Ntredu said the bank was committed to community development that was why it was supporting the various communities in their development projects.

Mr Ntredu announced that the bank recently donated 5,000 exercise books to the district for distribution to needy pupils.

Receiving the television sets, Mr Samuel Kofi Okyere, District Director of Education, acknowledged the collaboration between the bank and the directorate in the promotion of basic education in the district. Mr Okyere said it was as a result of such healthy collaboration that the district had over the past three years recorded successes in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

He announced that last year the district topped in English, Mathematics and Science in the Ashanti Region and this year it placed fifth in the national results and first in the region.