Charity Foundation to construct classrooms for Academy

Goviepe (V/R), April 14, GNA- The ENA Charity Foundation (ECF) founded by Mr. Marcel Desailly, a former French football superstar and UNICEF Ambassador for children's education in Africa, is to construct a three-classroom block for the Deliverance Children's Home and Academy at Goviepe-Kowu in the Hohoe South Municipality of the Volta Region. The ECF has also taken charge of the office, store and the Academy's feeding grant for the over 112 pupils in addition to a refresher course for the 10 teachers of the Academy aimed at sharpening their skills to enhance teaching and learning.

This intervention was in fulfilment of the ECF's aim of reaching out to deprived communities and people with the necessary logistics and assistance to enable them to realize their full potential in life. Ms Emma Simons Moisan, President of the ECF said this at a ceremony on Saturday at Goviepe-Kowu to donate food items, used clothes, shoes, toys, books among others to the pupils of the Deliverance Children's Home and Academy.

Other items such as gallons of cooking oil, bags of rice, maize and sugar were also donated to the school's food bank alongside medical screening for the pupils.

Ms Moisan said the ECF was touched by the plight of the community as well as the Academy, the reason for which it was embarking on the intervention to mitigate their plight.

She said the ECF was determined to ensure that the community as well as the Academy were provided with basic social amenities. Rev. Godwin Klu, Proprietor of the Academy said every child had a potential which they could realize if there was just a small push from the society. He called on government and corporate organizations to come to the aid of the Academy to enable it to build a science resource centre and also to provide it with other facilities to enhance teaching and learning. Currently, the Academy holds some of its classes under wooden structures, whilst other pupils organize theirs in the open space, a situation which makes them to close abruptly when there is rainfall. The ECF in December last year inaugurated a vocational training centre, a gari processing plant and a borehole at Agajajeter, in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region to serve as alternative source of income for the people there.