Desailly's ENA Charity Foundation to construct classrooms for Academy

Goviepe (V/R), April 12, 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 with office and store 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 Academy's feeding grant for the over 112 pupils and sponsored a refresher course for the 10 teachers of the Academy aimed at sharpening their skills to enhance teaching and learning there.

This intervention was in fulfillment of the ECF's avowed 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 disclosed this on Saturday at a ceremony organized by the ECF 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 aimed at putting smiles on their faces this Easter Season. 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, it alleviated the plight of the Goviepe community as well as the Academy by ensuring that certain basic social amenities were available to them to enable them to enjoy life.

Reverend 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. Reverend Klu said he was a form four school drop-out and did not want children in his community to suffer the same fate hence the establishment of the Academy.

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 organises theirs in the open space, a situation which makes them to close abruptly when there is rainfall or the clouds start gathering. The Academy, which started in 1991, apart from feeding its pupils, does not also collect charge fees and it is regarded as one of the best in terms of tuition in the municipality and has classes from primary 1 to JHS 3. Meanwhile, the ECF in December last year also 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. 12 April. 09