MTN Ghana Hands Over New Learning Centre to Accra Street Academy

Accra Street Academy
Accra Street Academy

Accra, July 31, 2017//-Beneficiaries of the dilapidated wooden structure of the school building of the Accra Street Academy at Mensah Guinea, a slum community in Accra on Monday July 31, 2017  heaved a sigh of relief when MTN Ghana handed over a new building block to them.

 Ataa Lartey, Founder and Director of the Accra  Street Academy, a non-governmental organization which provides shelter, food and clothing , non- formal education, and  healthcare to the vulnerable children in the society, was full of joy and praises for MTN Ghana.

He was confident that the school building project being financed by the telecom giant would help increase the enrollment of the less privileged children roaming on the streets of Accra.

The new block which has a library, special class, ICT laboratory, multipurpose hall, office and store was single-handily financed by the telecom company. It also provided the Street Academy with books and computers to make teaching and learning appealing to the children.

Mr Lartey said: “We use education, culture and sports to expose the hidden talents of the less fortunate children living on the streets of Accra”.

“Our children participate in sports, culture, music, drama and basic education through a non-formal system”, he told African Eye Report at the handing over of the building block ceremony which  officially closed the annual MTN 21 Days of Y’ello Care.

It is a 21-day long staff volunteerism programme in which employees across MTN’s operations across the world are encouraged to take time off to physically get involved in activities that will uplift the communities they operate in.
It also offers MTN staff the opportunity to brighten lives through this volunteer work.

Speaking at the handing over ceremony, the Corporate Services Executive of MTN Ghana, Mrs Cynthia Lumor, said for the fifth consecutive year, MTN employees united under the theme-‘Investing In Education For All’, identified projects aimed at brightening the lives of their stakeholders in the country.

Corporate Services Executive of MTN Ghana, Mrs Cynthia Lumor,
Corporate Services Executive of MTN Ghana, Mrs Cynthia Lumor 

The volunteer staff during the period she noted defied all odds to reconstruct and equip the Street Academy school replaced it with the beautiful edifice.

“In partnership with British Council, we provided five deprived institutions with online supplementary reading materials to aid teaching and learning”, Mrs Lumor said.

She added that MTN Ghana also donated over 5,000 books ranging from story books to dictionaries, science, Maths, social studies and English text books to about 16 basic schools across Ghana.

African Eye Report

 

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