VODAFONE DONATES COMPUTERS TO SCHOOLS (PAGE 17, JAN 11, 2010)

VODAFONE Ghana has donated 30 used flat screened desk top computers and accessories to six deprived schools in the three northern regions.
The items are to support the efforts of the beneficiary schools in the teaching and learning of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the schools.
The schools are the Kpandai and Savelugu Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Northern Region, Kongo and Chiana SHS in the Upper East Region and Ko and Piina SHS in the Upper West Region.
Each of the beneficiary schools received five computers and accessories.
Making the donation in Tamale, the Regional Sales Manager of Vodafone, Mr Inusah Abdul-Majeed stated that the gesture was part of “our drive and social responsibility initiative to introduce ICT in our schools”.
He noted that the geographical location of a child should not limit their education and for that matter ICT learning.
The manager said last year the company made similar donations to a number of schools across the country and mentioned some of them as the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region, the Kpeve SHS in the Volta Region and the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipal Hospital in the Ashanti Region.
He announced that Vodafone has opened a first class internet café to make internet services accessible to people. According to him, the facility had a speed of 40 megabyte per download and the fastest in West Africa.
The Corporate Communications Manager of the company, Mr Gordon Wellu observed that the donation was the beginning of many more good things to come from Vodafone saying education without ICT is not the best.
The headmaster of the Ko SHS Mr Kilian Guo thanked Vodafone on behalf of his colleagues saying it was a timely intervention for the selected deprived schools in the three northern regions.
He expressed regret that “in my school for instance we have only one computer which is hampering our efforts at teaching ICT”.