Educate 200 poor children in rural Ghana

Since December 2017, GG concentrated it’s efforts in encouraging pupils in Bolni Primary to read more in order to improve their academic performance. We have engaged parents to provide convenient places at home and monitor their children to read. By January 2018, we observed remarkable rise in interest among children in reading both at school and at home. Lipeemba, the Mother of Kitindo, informed us that his daughter now makes efforts to read any material she finds at home. “Whenever her friends come to the house, they pick materials and read together but occasionally go to their brother for help when they are in difficulty. However, my fear is that if they are not giving appropriate reading materials, they may be reading adult materials which are not supposed to be read by children” narrated Lipeemba.

Fortunately, with donations received from GlobalGiving, the fear of Lipeemba and many other parents and teachers of Bolni was allayed when GG supplied story books to the children of the school. After receiving the donation, 10 years old Kitindo was overjoyed and said “for the first time, I have a reading book of my own which I can read anywhere any time. I like the stories in it. I hope that one day I will be able to write our own local stories just like the way this is written. I am much grateful to all the GlobalGiving supporters who make it possible for us to get these books.”

In the coming months, GG intends to intensify its monitoring to encourage pear-to-pear reading habits among the beneficiary children to make the books more useful. Our joy is in the feedback we receive from children who benefit from your generous support. We hope that you continue your kind donation to make all the children better readers with child friendly reading materials. Once again, Grameen Ghana extends the sincere thanks and appreciation from the teachers, parents and pupils of Bolni in Northern Region of Ghana. 

It was all joy to many children when the exams began in December 2017. There was no borrowing of pens and pencils. No noise and shouting from teachers because most children had prepared well for the test. Twelve (12) years old Yaa, was smiling always. Not because the examination was easy, but because she was part of the reasons why many other girls were in school this term. She and her friends such as Manan made themselves pear education advocates encouraging their colleague GlobalGiving beneficiaries to learn hard to justify the donations they received. They also spread the good news about school to encourage other girls at home to talk to their parents to send them to school.

But what was so striking was that GlobalGiving beneficiaries showed more confidence during their terminal examination in December 2017 than last year.

According to Yaa, “when you are poor girl and lack many things, you don’t have confidence because you are always afraid that people will talk about your appearance. Therefore, you don’t want to be seen talking in class even if you don’t understand. This was my nature and teachers found me irritating because I was always nervous during class tests and always wished that we did not have to write any exams. However, the donations from GlobalGiving made me very active in class and I am happy because I am sure I will do well in this exams. I will always thank all those who have been supporting us with all these donations”.  

We are pleased that your donations have made education more attractive to many parents and children and this has resulted in 60 more children enrolling to school within this quarter. We are confident that your further donations will keep all these children in school. We in Grameen Ghana and the entire Bolni cluster of communities thank you for your generous support.