The facility, which the organization touted as one of its biggest projects in Ghana in supporting quality education, was donated to the staff and pupils of Peki-Dzogbati E.P Primary School in the North Dayi District of the Volta Region. 

The facility comes with office, store, and ancillary facilities, that provide a conducive learning environment for the pupils.

Speaking at the official commissioning of the building which coincided with the organization’s five year anniversary, the country Director of Pencils of Promise, Freeman Gobah, said the group was founded in 2008, with the goal of increasing access to quality education by building clean and safe schools in rural and developing communities in the world.

The Pencils of Promise started its operations in Ghana in 2012, and has since made giant strides in improving the quality of education mostly in the Volta Region.

At least about 20 districts in the Volta Region had benefited from their projects with additional two districts in the Eastern Region, also benefiting.

Over 120 schools have so far been rescued from collapsing.

To improve literacy in schools, the organization through its support program deployed 3,400 Electronic Readers to schools across the two regions of Eastern and Volta.

Freeman Gobah added that “beyond building safe and sustainable structures, we have provided in-service training to over 500 circuit supervisors, head teachers and teachers in 48 schools.”

To ensure a holistic education, Pencils of Promise also introduced its water, sanitation and hygiene module, where the schools are provided sanitary facilities, Polytanks, water filters, buckets and pupils groomed to adopt healthy lifestyles.

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa, who was present at the ceremony commended the organization for their tremendous efforts in supporting education in Ghana.

He said although the government is committed to providing quality education to all children of school going age, competing for demands from other sectors of the economy, vis-à-vis financial constraints, there’s the need for active collaborations with the private sector to achieve common goals.  

He therefore called on beneficiaries to cultivate a sense of maintenance culture, to ensure the facilities are used effectively.

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By: King Nobert Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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A spokesman for President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the request was made by the Egyptian embassy in Washington.

The woman asked for the video to be taken down when Mr Sisi visited her in hospital on Wednesday, he said.

YouTube has not yet responded to news of the request.

The graphic video, which apparently shows a woman being stripped naked and attacked in the capital’s Tahrir Square, went viral earlier this week.

A string of assaults during the recent celebrations have caused uproar.

‘Horrifying’

State-run television showed the president personally apologising to a victim, whose identity has been kept anonymous, at a military hospital in Cairo on Wednesday.

The woman was seen asking Mr Sisi to have the video of the attack removed from the video-sharing website.

“My daughter watches it every day and collapses,” she was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

On Tuesday, a presidential spokesman said Mr Sisi had ordered officials to enforce a new law making sexual assault a crime for the first time.

The law decrees that those found guilty of harassment in public or private will face up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($6,990; £4,160).

Women’s rights groups have accused the authorities of failing to address the issue of sexual harassment.

A 2013 UN study said that nine out of 10 Egyptian women had experienced some form of sexual assault, ranging from minor harassment to rape.

Human rights campaigners have describe the extent of the problem in Egypt as “horrifying”.

Incidents have soared in the three years since the 2011 overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.

Source: BBC

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The move comes after the country’s highest court ordered authorities to restore access, saying the ban violated laws on freedom of expression.

The ban was imposed in late March, soon after recordings alleging official corruption were aired on the site.

Turkey passed a controversial law early this year that let regulators cut off any site without needing a court order.

The government had also imposed a ban on social networking site Twitter, but that was lifted last month.

Authorities had continued to block YouTube until now despite decisions from lower courts calling on the government to lift the ban.

The ruling by the constitutional court is widely seen as a snub to the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which has been a sharp critic of social media sites.

Both YouTube and Twitter were blocked after recordings of official meetings were leaked and widely circulated.

One recording involved senior army officers discussing intervention in Syria and others supposedly revealed corruption among people close to Mr Erdogan.

The block was imposed as a “precautionary administrative measure”, Turkey’s telecommunications regulator had said at the time.

YouTube was blocked previously in Turkey in 2007 but that ban was lifted in 2010.

The Turkish newspaper Millyet reported on Monday that another social network, Ask.fm, was blocked this week. It published a memo from the country’s Department of Telecommunications confirming the move.

However, the Latvian-based site indicated that any such restriction might have been short-lived.

“Today Ask.fm service in Turkey is stable and continuous,” Liva Biseniece, Ask.fm’s director of external relations, told the BBC.

“The traffic from Turkey to the site is at its usual level. On Monday, however, it was apparent that traffic from Turkey was slightly decreased.

“As of now, the company has not received any information from Turkish authorities regarding a possible ban of Ask.fm.”

Source:BBC

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