Asantehene receives 100 boxes of books for schools

Kumasi (Ashanti), 23rd June 99 ?

The Rotary Club of Kumasi on Monday presented 100 boxes of books valued at over 50 million cedis to the Ghana Education Service through Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, to promote education in Ashanti.

The books on various academic disciplines are to be distributed to basic and second cycle schools.

Oheneba Boakye-Ansah, President of the Club, who delivered the books at Manhyia, said they were received from their partners in Apopka, in the United States.

He assured Otumfuo Osei Tutu of the Club's support for his interest in the development of education and catalogued the Club's numerous projects and assistance to communities as well as institutions in Ashanti.

These include presentation of eye equipment, motor bikes and helmets to Kasei Saint Luke Hospital.

The club sponsored the training of a number of nurses in plastic surgery and donated a Nissan pick-up to the Garden City Special School at Asokore-Mampong.

It has provided potable water for some communities in Ashanti, he said.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu expressed appreciation to the club for the donation and its community services.

He said a committee on education set up by the Manhyia Palace would arrange the distribution of the books to beneficiary schools. It will take into account the needs of deprived schools in the rural areas.