Future Hope Foundation (FHF), a Community Based Organisation in collaboration with Equip Africa of USA, has donated 25 desktop computers and accessories to the Adaklu-Have Basic schools.

The donation included 83 boxes containing books, general school supplies and typewriters.

The two organizations also collaborated to refurbish a workshop of the junior high school for use as a computer laboratory.

The donation was under the groups’ Reading and Computer Literacy Programme to improve Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education in rural schools.

The items and the refurbishment were funded by Rotary International.

Mr. Courage Afenyo Kodzi, Director of FHF who handed over the items to the school on behalf of the donors told the GNA that similar donations were made to some schools at Dodome Teleafenu E.P., Kpando Aloyi, Dela Sowah, Arthur Fischer and Aggrey Road One Basic schools.

He said under the Reading and Computer Literacy Programme, 106 teachers from the beneficiary schools in the Western, Volta and Greater Accra regions were trained in ICT to enable them to implement the two-year programme.

Mr. Kodzi said Eight Systems Computers, a computer firm, would also train the teachers in computer hardware to enable them service the computers.

He said the donors had set aside 250 computers as a reserve for the replacement of those that could not be repaired.

Mr. Kodzi said pupils in basic schools in rural areas had become “victims” of government’s policy of teaching ICT as a subject in basic schools, “hence our desire to assist such pupils catch up with their counterparts in the urban areas”.

Mr. Emmanuel Sky Ganaku, the Adaklu District Chief Executive, appealed to the pupils, teachers and members of the community to take advantage of the opportunity offered them to become computer literate.

Mr. Richard Senyo Osei, an Assistant Director of Education, spoke about the fallen standard of education in the district and said 10 out of the 25 junior high schools in the district got zero percent in the last Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

He described the situation as a “catastrophe” and appealed to stakeholders in education in the district to help reverse the trend.

Miss Anasthasia Kpedinu thanked the donors and said the donation came at the opportune time, assuring that they would use the facilities to improve on their academic work.