Accra, Jan. 20, GNA - Vodafone Ghana has donated 30 slightly used computers and accessories to six deprived schools in the three

northern regions to boost Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education, a statement in Accra said on Wednesday. The statement signed by Mr. Paul Ryan, Corporate Communications Director of Vodafone Ghana, said the beneficiary schools were

the Savelegu and Kpandai Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Northern Region, Ko and Piina in the Upper West Region and Kongo and

Chiana in the Upper East Region. "Each school received five computers and their accessories," the statement said. The statement said Mr. Gordon Wellu, a Corporate Communications Manager at Vodafone, made the presentation at a brief

ceremony in Tamale, according to the statement. It quoted Mr. Wellu as saying that the donation was part of Vodafone's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives aimed at

enhancing the teaching and learning of ICT in schools. He noted that Vodafone had taken cognisance of the deplorable conditions under which most schools operated in northern Ghana

and had thus carefully selected the beneficiary schools whose situations were even worse. Mr. Wellu said the company had already made similar donations to the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region, Ejisu-

Juabeng Municipal Hospital in the Ashanti Region, Kpeve SHS in the Volta Region and Ghana Secondary/Technical School in the

Western Region. "It is our hope that we can serve all deprived schools in the country and this token will go a long way to help the teaching and

learning of ICT in our schools because we in Vodafone believe that the geographical location of a child should not limit them in

education," he said. The statement said the Headmaster of Ko SHS, Mr. Kilian Guo, received the computers on behalf of the beneficiaries and expressed

gratitude to Vodafone for the kind gesture. "The donation came in handy since many of the schools were battling with just one or two dysfunctional computers," he said.