Voltic donates desks to deprived schools
Voltic (GH) Limited, producer of Voltic natural mineral water, has handed over 2,200 Tutu desks valued at GH¢127,130 to World Vision Ghana for distribution to schoolchildren in deprived communities in Ghana.
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Tutu desks are portable school desks (flat surface writing boards), which is a project initiated by the Tutu Desk Campaign, whose patron is South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It is aimed at providing writing surfaces for children in sub-Saharan Africa who do not have the benefit of a classroom desk.
More than 4000 desks have been donated by Voltic (GH) Limited since 2012, to over 4,000 schoolchildren in more than 40 primary schools who otherwise had no writing surfaces.
At the ceremony to present the desks to World Vision, Mr Philip Redman, the General Manager of Voltic (GH) Limited, stated that “we endeavour to create shared opportunities by reinvesting beyond our value chain.
“By ensuring the availability of some basic amenities, like teaching and learning materials, Voltic is supporting the government’s efforts in providing accessible education for future generations,” he said.
Receiving the items on behalf of World Vision Ghana, the National Director, Mr Hubert Charles, commended Voltic and stressed that “education is the keyhole through which we all must pass to have a chance at a good life. World Vision will not relent to provide children especially the most vulnerable, opportunity to have the best of education in Ghana”.
The absence of a writing surface has been found to affect the handwriting, concentration and overall academic performance of children.
Voltic (GH) Limited’s partnership with World Vision Ghana to bring Tutu desks to children in deprived communities in Ghana is in line with Voltic’s corporate objective to support initiatives that seek to improve access to primary education and improvement in educational infrastructure
Recognising the benefits of these desks, Augustine Wadzro, a 17-year-old beneficiary and junior high school student of Dedesu DA Junior High School in the Afram Plains, stated: “Since I joined this school I have been sharing desks and sometimes sit and write on the floor but today, I have something to write on. I want to learn so hard that I can write letters for the elders in my community and also teach the young ones.”
Voltic (Gh) Limited, through the acquisition and distribution of Tutu desks, demonstrates a sustainable approach to building a thriving world, one of the company’s sustainable development goals.