SCHOOLCHILDREN in 30 deprived communities in the Upper Manya Krobo District were at the weekend given free exercise books and school uniforms by the government.
Some of the beneficiary communities are Abuatsam, Fefee, Sisiaman Yiti, Akormersu, Akontaa, Oditsanse, Bormase Whenya, Bormase Tenya and Korlewa.
The beneficiary schools include Akateng District Assembly (D/A) Primary and Junior High Schools (JHS), Oditsase D/A, Akurmesu D/A, Bormase Whenya D/A and Asuom-Manya D/A Primary schools.
Happy parents thronged all the schools where the items were being distributed, singing praises to President Mills for keeping to his 2008 campaign promise of supplying their children with school uniforms and exercise books.
The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, who personally distributed the items, said in all 73,000 exercise books and 2,300 school uniforms, out of which 300 had been sewn, had been given out to the pupils.
He told the parents that the rest of the materials for the uniforms had been given out to tailors and seamstresses in the district to be sewn, after which the uniforms would be supplied to the schoolchildren.
The DCE, who was accompanied by the District Director of Education, Mr Stephen Buadu-Appiah, and some officials of the assembly and the education directorate, said he had to first concentrate on the very remote areas where majority of parents could not afford to provide basic necessities for their schoolchildren.
He gave the assurance that the whole district would soon be covered to fulfil President Mills’s electioneering pledge to provide those school items to ensure that every child of school age would go to school.
The DCE, therefore, called on parents to support the government, which was also providing social amenities, especially in the deprived communities.
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