Students From OSLO College of Education Donates to Basic Schools

Students and teachers from Oslo College of Education, have donated teaching and learning materials worth 6,000 Norwegian Krones to 3 schools in the Effutu Municipality on Friday, June 5, 2015 at the North Campus.

The schools are Synclaire International, Family Care Nursery and Kindergarten and University Practice Inclusive Primary, South Campus.

The Director for International Relations and Public Affairs Directorate (IRPAD), UEW, Dr. Yaw Ofosu Kusi who presented the items on their behalf said, the donation was just to thank the schools for giving Oslo students the opportunity to do their internship with them.

According to Dr. Ofosu Kusi, every year, UEW receives 1 or 2 female students from the Oslo College of Education, who are assigned to some selected basic schools in the Effutu District. These students get so acquainted that when they go back, they decide to raise funds to help support the schools with teaching and learning materials. Last year, he said, they raised some money and gave the Directorate strict instructions to buy teaching and learning materials for the schools involved.

The Director urged the pupils to listen attentively to their parents, teachers and most of all learn hard so that, in the next 10 to 15 years, they would become better citizens to move the country forward.

He hoped the materials would help the teachers, teach what they are supposed to teach, and help the learners learn what would be taught.

Emma Frimpong, Headmistress, UNIPRA South Inclusive Primary, thanked IRPAD for the donation and gave the assurance that the materials would be put to good use. She hoped Dr. Ahmed K. Amihere, a lecturer at the Department of Basic Education would visit the schools and take the pupils through the use of the learning materials, from time to time.

The other representatives were Rose Blankson, Headmistress, Synclaire International and Mary Sackey Yarney, Family Care Nursery and Kindergarten.

Present at the short ceremony was Mr. Andy Agordah, Senior Assistant Registrar, IRPAD and some teachers from the basic schools.