The Sahel-Sahara Bank on Thursday donated 12 whiteboards and markers estimated at GHS 3,000 to the Mantse Tackie Liberty Cluster of Schools in Accra.

The donation was initiated by the Wisewater Foundation, a Non Governmental Organisation, which is undertaking a project to replace black boards with white boards in selected schools.

Mr Emmanuel Amarquaye, Executive Chairman of Wisewater Foundation, said even though teachers in public schools were very committed and willing to give off their best to the country, the conditions in which they work are not the best.

“The teachers have no offices to work, no staff common rooms, no libraries to do their research and it is a very great worry,” he said. Mr Amarquaye said though government is distributing free exercise books to pupils in various public schools, many of the intended beneficiaries are not getting the books.

He said Mantse Tackie Liberty Cluster of Schools, was an instance, where some of the students do not have exercise books to use for class work.

He, therefore, appealed to the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to ensure that the needy students benefited from the free exercise books project.

He also advised the students to learn hard and become useful citizens adding that the Wisewater Foundation would continue to seek for more help to ensure quality education.

Mr Awokye Pratt, General Manager of Sahel-Sahara Bank, said the donation was part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility and an effort to support government to modernise and facilitate teaching and learning.

He said the bank has a School Child Plus account and urged parents to invest in the education of their children by opening an account for their children.

He also promised the continued support of the bank to make teaching and learning more effective and efficient, especially in the Mantse Tackie Liberty Cluster of Schools.

Mrs Evelyn Akorfa Yentumi, Circuit Supervisor for Adjabeng Circuit 38, commended Sahel-Sahara bank and Wisewater Foundation for the donation saying the white boards would save teachers and pupils from the chalk dust.