SOS Children’s Villages International, with its aim to improving the lives of children and young people without parental care, has commissioned water projects for five schools in Abuakwa North Municipality in the Eastern region.
The schools are; Nana Adepa Presbyterian Nursery and KG School Complex, Kukurantumi Municipal Assembly (M/A) school and Obodanase Presbyterian among others.
The organisation partners with donors, communities, children, young people and families to ensure proper upbringing of children.
The commissioned water projects for the five schools are expected to benefit over ten thousand pupils, in the quest to improve quality education in the Municipality and Ghana as a whole.
SOS Children’s Villages International has also commenced water pump installation projects in some primary schools across the country to enable the children have access to clean water and potable water.
The move by SOS Children’s Villages International is in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG4), which aims to provide children and young people with quality and easy access to education, with other learning opportunities.
Speaking to The Chronicle, Alexander Mar Kekula, the National Director for SOS Children’s Villages International, said they are committed to improving the quality of education for students in the country.
He stated that having access to clean drinking water was critical for human survival, adding that they are fighting for children’s development and progress.
Alexander Mar Kekula continued that they are putting measures in place to close and eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access at all levels of education.
To him, educating a girl-child was as best as educating a nation, which has become the proximal determinant of his outfit’s commitment to building school infrastructure for the same deprived schools in Ghana, with the provision of ICT materials.
Alexander Mar Kekula pleaded with donors to join hands with SOS Children’s Villages International to help reach out to these children who are disadvantaged in the space of education, because of their geographical location.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Abuakwa North Assembly, Alhaji Umar Bas Bodinga, on his part, urged the various school heads to take good care with proper maintenance of the water pump installation project.
He explained that providing safe water and sanitation for pupils’ wellbeing was very crucial and was, therefore, full of praise for SOS Children’s Villages International for their support to the schools in the municipality.
He said that SOS Children’s Villages International has contributed immensely to the communities in the country to improve the lives of children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it.
