Binduri, (UE) Nov 13, GNA - The Tansia, Binduri, and Narango at Binduri junior high schools at Binduri, near Bawku in the Upper East Region, have benefited from a donation of ICT equipment valued at GHC2,608. They were given by a retired teacher, Mrs Jane Haile in Bristol, United Kingdom.

The equipment consist of two uninterruptible power source (UPS), one computer printer, two sets of switchboards, five monitors, key boards, system units, and mouse. Mr Philip Ayamba, programme coordinator for Zuuri Organic Vegetable Farmers Association (ZOVFA), who donated the items on behalf of Mrs. Haile, noted that due to the rapid increase of information technology systems in the world, Mrs Haile saw the need to contribute in this way to help facilitate the teaching and learning of ICT in the schools. He called on the beneficiary schools to protect the equipment and maintain them as well.

Receiving the items, Mr. Alexis Myuurbome Dery, Assistant Director of Education in charge of Public Relations and Training for the Bawku Municipality, urged the beneficiary schools to use the computers responsibly.

He called on parents to support their wards in education and not to leave everything on teachers because of their free education. He called on heads of schools to meet regularly to institute a time table for the usage of the computers. The traditional leader of the area, Mr Inusah Awame, commended the benefactor for the concern she had for the development of education in the area and appealed to the government and other developmental partners to emulate her. He said schools in the area lacked infrastructure and teachers and called on the municipal directorate of the Ghana Education Service to treat the matter with concern.