Educate 200 poor children in rural Ghana

In the last quarter of 2018, the teachers in Bolni Primary School introduced reading competition among children to help sustain their reading habits. Thanks to the support from GG, the presence of reading materials coupled with the excitements in the reading competition has helped to keep most of the children in class to rehearse their reading skills in the absence of teachers.

According to Mr. Adjei, the head teacher of the school, “I am short of words to describe how the reading materials from GG has positively impacted the school, especially retention in class. The gesture by GG has reduced the burden of chasing after pupils most especially the very little ones just to remain in their classrooms to learn. Now they sit and do the reading by themselves. With great excitement, Mr. Adje, added “the reading competitions organized between boys and girls in the upper primary is greatly helping to sustain good reading habits among the children”. With more reading materials and continuous monitoring by GG, the reading competition can extend to all the classes in the school. 

In the next quarter, GG shall strengthen the reading competitions through award schemes and motivational talks in order to sustain the reading habits among the children. We passionately appeal to you to continue donating to our project so as to help all these poor children stay and complete school. The teachers, pupils, and parents in Bolni as well as Grameen Ghana say “Thank you for your wonderful donations”.

The work of GG in Bolni received resounding applause by Parent Teacher Association members as 80 of the poor pupils in upper primary obtained 80% average score in their last terminal exams. The same group of pupils had an average of 50% scores during the same terminal exams in 2017. Thanks to the learning materials from GlobalGiving and Grameen Ghana's monitoring and coaching of peer learning activities in the community, Ubabu and her colleagues have made history through their unprecedented increase in academic performance. Ubabu was full of smiles and confidence when she said “GlobalGiving has given me hope and inspiration to complete school. I never believed I could do well in school again and So I was only matching time to a day I will leave primary school and join my sisters at the farm. However, with my current performance, I now realize that I can even go to University in Tamale, just like some of the men from this area”. The story of Ubabu and her colleagues is an indication that the donations from GlobalGiving never go waste when we patiently keep supporting beneficiaries to use these donations. In the last quarter of the year, GG intends to launch new projects to increase competition among rural children to motivate them to increase their performance. GG will also continue the quest for increase access to solar lamps for off-grid communities like Bolni. It is our strong hope that you continue your donations to us to help improve the performance of more deprived school children in Ghana. The people of Bolni and Grameen Ghana sincerely thank you for your kind support.