School children in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions have received a total of 30,000 branded exercise books from Samara Group of Companies.

The books were distributed by various regional representatives of 2014 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) – Lamine, Baci and Ruky - for the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions respectively.

Each region received 10,000 exercise books to be distributed to poor and needy pupils selected from various districts in the regions.

In Upper East, schools were selected from the Bolgatanga, Kasena-Nankana West, Navrongo, Builsa North and Garu-Tempane Districts.

Schools from Wa, Tumu, Jirapa and Nadowli Districts were also selected from the Upper West Region while schools from Kpandai, Central Gonja, Nanumba North, Tatale, Zabzuga, Saboba, Kariga, Gushegu, Bole, Damongo and Yendi Districts were also selected from the Northern region.

Bole District Director of Education in the Northern Region, Ms. Leocadia Zakpala said in an interview that the Northern Region has been the poorest region in terms of education and hence commended Samara Group for the gesture.

She said since one of the reasons for the poor performance of the children has got to do with the lack of basic learning materials for the pupils, she was sure the gesture would help tackle that.

Ms. Zakpala called on other corporate institutions to also come to their aid.

The Marketing Manager of Samara Group of Companies, Mr. Sedrick Nartey Ologo, underscored the need for the school children to be assisted with basic education materials to enhance their studies, hence, the move to put up a nationwide books distribution exercise.

He said the distribution forms part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to help members of the society in terms of education, health and human security.

Mr. Ologo disclosed that 40,000 free exercise books had already been distributed to school children in the Brong Ahafo, Central, Western and Volta Regions, prior to the distribution exercise carried out in the three Northern Regions.

He mentioned that the remaining three regions – Ashanti, Eastern and Greater Accra Regions will in the coming weeks receive their share of the free exercise books which are being given out to school children nationwide.