Grameen Ghana is a non-governmental organization working in the north with a focus on issues relating to food, nutrition and post-harvest loss.

The organization has noted that the lack of reading materials negatively affects teaching and learning in the school.

The Programmes Manager for Grameen Ghana, Mr Mugmin Musah, said the gesture is to ensure that pupils have access to some reading material in order to improve their work in school.

“The school lacks reading materials and a lot of children cannot read. This is a big worry because even in the upper primary, very few children could read, 3 out of 30 children could read and we think that lack of access to reading materials is contributing greatly to this particular challenge.”

He expressed hope that teachers and parents will help the children to utilize the learning materials that are supplied so that a lot more children will take up reading as well.

The head teacher of the school, Samson Nikpe Sanja, expressed his gratitude to Grameen for the gesture saying the materials have come at the right time

He also pledged to ensure that the materials are put to good use.

Parents also expressed their joy for the support from Grameen Ghana saying this, and other interventions by the organization have greatly eased the pressure of buying school materials for their wards.

They also pledged to ensure that their wards put the materials they had been given to the best use possible.

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By: Mohammed Aminu M. Alabira/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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JHS pupils who made it to the top 50 of Level 1, converged on the venue to write an aptitude test, after which the best ten will be selected for the grand finale.

The Literacy Challenge was launched on July 19 for JHS pupils to write and suggest to the president of Ghana how to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa.

After entries were submitted, external examiners marked the scripts and selected the top 50 pupils for Level 2.

After the test, the 50 contestants were given certificates and medals, an amount of five hundred cedis each.

They will now be waiting for the outcome of the test, where the best ten students will be selected.

In the end, the overall winner is expected to receive an amount of Ghc10,000 and other prizes.

The Literacy Challenge is sponsored by Bic, Cowbell, Slydepay and Milky Magic and powered by Citi 97.3 FM.

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By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong/citimfonline.com/Ghana
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CALID’s Executive Director, Mohammed Awal Sumani Bapio decried the situation at a day’s stakeholders forum organized in collaboration with OXFAM Ghana.

He thereby called for the establishment of more libraries in basic schools to overturn the situation.

According to Mohammed Awal Sumani Bapio, CALID in partnership with OXFAM Ghana conducted research in the Sagnarigu, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba and Kpandai districts on basic school pupils reading skills.

He said a sample size of 925 school children comprising 433 girls and 492 boys from Primary 1 to Junior High School 3 were assessed in 20 Electoral Areas of the Sagnarigu District.

He narrated that the assessment was conducted by volunteers under a project codenamed, “Citizen-Led Assessment: Strengthening Citizens’ Action on Learning and Empowerment (SCALE).”

“The study examined the extent to which every child who is of school age has learned in terms of basic literacy and numeracy skills in order to survive the 21^st century learner space,” Sumani Bapio explained

“The bedrock of real learning lies in the ability to read and understand but when a child in lower and upper primary school as well as JHS cannot read and make meaning out of what they see written on paper or on a chalkboard, then that is very serious.”

“Comparing the Sagnarigu District to the Kpandai and Sawla-Tuna-Kalba Districts, though the former is better than the latter, the study result of the three districts is still nothing to write home about.”

A representative of the Sagnarigu District Education Directorate, Mohammed Fuseini urged parents to get involved in the assessment of their children in school.

Participants at the forum attributed the phenomenon to lack of parents interest in monitoring their children’s performance, poor teacher instructions and government’s failure to provide the requisite learning and teaching materials.

They also cited weak structures of many Parent Teacher Associations and School Management Committees as a major cause.

The participants advocated the independence of the Ghana Education Service devoid of government’s interference.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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