快猫视频 Partner Commissions New Library in Ghana's Ashanti Region
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快猫视频 partner Sanitation and Literacy Ghana (SALG) has commissioned the Ashanti region's 20th community library. While it serves students of the Afari Presby Basic School, where it is located, it also serves the larger community and the students of surrounding towns.
The Afari School聽is a rural public school that suffers from insufficient reading materials. While Ghana has made progress in improving access to schools, there are still children that are not literate. Remote areas struggle particularly with this, largely due to the lack of reading facilities. While 500 libraries have been proposed for each district in Ghana, only 150 have been built thus far, a situation the Ghana Library Authority calls "woefully inadequate." The SALG library became the Ashanti region's 20th community library.
School Headmaster Reverend Francis Afum Agyei commended the initiative for how it would help improve education. He cited that one of the school's major challenges was a lack of books, and聽said the modern books would聽benefit the school's current curriculum.
SALG has sponsored hundreds of thousands of books shipped to Ghana in partnership with 快猫视频. SALG founders Isaac and Rosie Owens serve on 快猫视频's Board of Directors and Ambassadors Circle, respectively. As Rosie mentioned in an interview at the library's opening ceremony, SALG has sent ten 40-foot containers of materials to underperforming schools to encourage children to improve literacy and computer literacy to become the best of the best. Rosie and Isaac recently travelled to Ghana to see the ripple effect of these investments in education, and, as Rosie said, "The impact is real, and it keeps growing!"
SALG's next projects involve opening a school they have been renovating and donating books to the children's unit at Korle Bu Hospital. 快猫视频 is so pleased to have the opportunity to partner with SALG on this journey and to empower more children to experience the joy of reading!
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