St Joseph Primary benefits from Tigo Ghana’s project

The Saint Joseph R/C Primary School for Children with Special Needs, Obuasi, is the latest educational institution to benefit from Tigo Ghana’s Shelter 4 Education’ initiative.

The telecommunication company pulled down the school’s dilapidated building and replaced it with a four-unit classroom block, which is fully furnished, with an office for the headmistress, a pantry and toilet facilities for the children.

At an inaugural ceremony to hand over the new building to the school, the Municipal Chief Executive Officer for the Obuasi Municipal Assembly, Mr Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, lauded Tigo Ghana for coming to the aid of children who need special care.

Shelter 4 Education project

“Tigo’s Shelter 4 Education project has come to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in this municipality and I am forever grateful for the support,” he said, adding, “For the past three years, the number of children with special needs in this school has been declining due to the run-down structure. It is the only special school in this municipality, yet we were unable to offer any support or comfort to the children.”

The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Christiana Adei, thanked the organisation for providing the school with the edifice and promised to take good care of it.

The Head of Tigo Ghana’s Corporate Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Department, Mrs Gifty Bingley, reiterated Tigo’s commitment to care for the communities within which it operated, and expressed optimism that the educational investments would benefit the pupils, their families and the communities at large.