Regional News of Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Source: GNA

GOIL donates to school

Cape Coast, Jan. 26, GNA - The Headmistress of the Cape Coast School for the Deaf, Ms. Barbara Anning, has appealed to organizations and individuals to assist the school to acquire teaching materials to enable it achieve its dream of offering the best of education to disabled children.

The school has 397 students some of them being offered vocational training and skills.

Ms. Anning said the school, which has 397 students, is saddled with a lot of challenges like the provision of school uniforms and beddings for needy students.

She said this when the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) donated gari, rice, beans, cooking oil, powdered milk, biscuits, toffees and plastic cups to the school.

Ms Anning said the teaching staff strength of the school was 46 and that the school was doing its best to give quality education to the students.

Mr. Cyril Opon, the Corporate Affairs Manager of GOIL who made the presentation, said it was part of the company's corporate social responsibility to give to society and therefore the presentation was a token to help assist the school.