Peace Corps Volunteer provides ICT facility for schools

Gwollu (U/W), Nov. 4, GNA - Mr Adam Luck, a Peace Corps Volunteer, has provided an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facility at Gwollu for basic schools in the Sissala West District.

The facility, which was established at an estimated cost of more than 8,000 dollars, would promote the use of ICT among students in the area.

Mr Cezar Kale, Deputy Upper West Regional Minister who inaugurated the facility, commended the Peace Corps Volunteer for establishing the facility.

He appealed to the teachers to guide the students against the negative use of the facility but rather encourage them to use it to sharpen their skills to become competitive.

Mr Luck thanked his friends and family in the US, Mr Haruna Bayirga, the Member of Parliament for the area, the District Assembly and the District Education Directorate as well as some members of the community for supporting him to establish the facility.

He said after interacting with the schools in Gwollu for about a year, he realized that ICT had become an examinable subject for junior high school students and some of them had not seen a computer before.

Mr Luck said his desire to establish the ICT center was to help the students to have access to the computer to enable them to pass the examination.

Mr Robert Baka Wavei, Sissala West District Chief Executive, expressed the Assembly's gratitude to the Peace Corps Volunteer for his continued support in their quest to extend ICT services to all the schools in the district.

He promised that the Assembly would provide a computer for each school connected to the national grid to enhance the practical teaching and learning of ICT.