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Kalba, Ghana – HiChale, a community-based nonprofit nongovernmental organization in Kalba in the Savannah Region of Ghana, has donated classroom furniture to basic schools in the area.
The dual desk furniture, totalling 94, were distributed among seven schools within the Kalba area to address persistent shortage of school furniture compelled pupils to lie on their bellies while learning.
The beneficiary schools are St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic KG and Primary School in Jorchitee, Kalba District Assembly Primary School, Kalba Roman Catholic Primary School, Konhintee District Assembly Primary School, Garkuon Roman Catholic Primary School, St. Joseph’s Junior High School and HAGEN’s Junior High School in Kalba.
A statement from the School Improvement Support Officer (SISO) for the Kalba Circuit, acknowledged the support the NGO had consistently given towards improving education in the circuit.
He mentioned that some basic schools would have collapsed completely but for the intervention of the NGO in providing volunteer teachers who had kept those schools active.
Parish Priest of the Kalba Parish also called on parents and teachers to ensure enrolment levels were maintained in order for all children in the area to benefit from interventions by the NGO.
Managing Director of the HiChale, EMMANUEL DERY KUUSANI, called on managers of the seven beneficiary schools to endeavor to properly maintain the furniture are well taken care so that they can last longer.
He added that: “the best way to appreciate donors efforts is to ensure projects are sustained.”
About HiChale
HiChale is a newly established NGO from a Church-based partnership between the people of the Kalba Roman Catholic Parish and their friends from Altenberge-Erika in Germany through a Catholic Missionary, Rev. Fr. Hagen of Blessed Memory.
The establishment of the NGO is to continue with the vision of this partnership, which has for over four decades financed hundreds of development projects in the Kalba area. These projects include but not limited to healthcare support, including the only health centre in Kalba zone, educational support in terms of building schools, water supply in terms of providing boreholes and dams, social support to the needy in terms of basic needs, sponsorship of students and many others.
The HiChale NGO is formed to also continue this development agenda not only in Kalba but also in Funsi now, through collaboration with popular Ghanaian female performing and recording artiste, Wiyaala.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Joseph Ziem
