NLA donates to Bawku Secondary

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) on Monday presented a cheque for GH¢ 5,000.00 to the Bawku Senior High School to enable the school’s management to procure computers for its laboratory.

The school has a computer laboratory built by the Government but it has not been equipped to adequately cater for students Information and Communication Technology (ICT) needs, hence, the school’s management request to NLA for the support.

The Upper East Regional Sales Manager of NLA, Mr Ebenezer Donkor, who presented the cheque to the Headmaster of the school at a brief ceremony, indicated that the gesture was part of the NLA’s social responsibility to society and said it was the Authority’s hope to do more to improve on students’ knowledge in ICT.

He said the request touched the heart of management of the NLA to act quickly because it envisaged ICT as a major tool for development in the nearest future as the world embraced technology in its general form.

Mr Donkor said the NLA would continue to offer support to schools and other needy educational institutions where its finances could reach and added that the NLA had over the years played those philanthropic roles all geared at making less endowed and needy institutions active in improving students’ wellbeing.

He said the NLA was a major contributor to the country’s internally generated funds meant for the development of social infrastructure and encouraged the public to patronise NLA games because funds from such games supported the country’s purse.

Mr Donkor advised members of the public not to patronise ‘banker-to-banker lottery’ operatives because their activities were illegal and said monies accrued by those operatives only enriched few individuals at the expense of the state.

The Headmaster of the school, Mr Bismarck Kpuli, expressed gratitude to management of NLA for the gesture and said the gift had come at the right time when ICT would soon be made an examinable subject at the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) level.

He recounted how the school’s computer laboratory was ill-equipped and that the gift would boost ICT learning in spite of other difficulties the school had been grappling with in recent times.

Mr Kpuli mentioned inadequate water supply to the school in view of increased population and appealed to other philanthropic individuals and organisations to come to its aid.

A student of the school, Master Edward Ndebilla Ayaaba, thanked management of the NLA for the gesture and called on government to assist the school equip the ICT laboratory to enable it to meet the ever growing technology in computer science.