US-based NGO provides library for Challenging Height School
The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Gene Cretz, has inaugurated a modern library for the Challenging Heights School at Winneba in the Central Region.
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A US-based organisation, the Hand-in-Hand for Literacy Foundation, sponsored the construction of the $80,000 library and provided 8,000 books and other logistics. Mr Cretz provided additional assorted books and footballs for the school.
The library facility is intended to enhance reading and learning among students in the Effutu Municipality.
Inaugurating the facility, Mr Cretz commended Challenging Heights, a non-governmental organisation, for its commitment to providing education and rescuing children from slavery in Ghana.
He described the work by Challenging Heights as inspiring and motivating.
Challenging Heights
The library adds up to the number of facilities— shelters, schools, ICT—that the organisation has built with support from partners.
Through education, economic empowerment and community mobilisation, Challenging Heights targets at-risk, poor families to explain the dangers of child trafficking and to address the root cause of slavery.
US initiatives
Describing child labour as one of the worst forms of abuse, Mr Cretz said the US government would continue to work with the government of Ghana to build capacities and strengthen its laws to stop the child trafficking menace.
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He said the USAID was also supporting effective programmes to increase the quality of and access to basic education throughout the country.
The President of Challenging Heights, Mr James Kofi Annan, urged parents in the community to encourage their children to go to school.
As a nation, he said efforts should be made to ensure that every child went to school.