Love for pupils of Tigo Shelter 4 Education project
Valentine’s Day came early for the pupils and teachers of Obeng Yaw Basic School in Adeiso, and Tupaa MA Basic School in Ga South Municipality.
Staff of paid a visit to the schools to donate learning materials, refreshments and volunteered to teach the pupils and interact with teachers of the community.
The materials donated included exercise books, school bags, slates, pens, pencils, crayons, and maths sets, among others.
The headmaster of Obeng Yaw Basic Primary School, Mr. Albert Amable, expressed his profound gratitude saying: “We are so thankful to Tigo for this kind gesture.
“Whenever our pupils hear any news regarding Tigo, they are very excited because they’ve come to associate Tigo with quality education and sharing, and look up to the staff of source of inspiration.”
The staff interaction forms part of Tigo’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative to improve the lives of underprivileged children through education and digitization.
Commenting on the donation, the Director of Corporate Communications and CSR, Mrs. Gifty Bingley said: “We are dedicated to contributing our quota to improving education in Ghana and during this month of love, we wanted to continuing showing our love to pupils in continue where we first began our star CSR project Shelter 4 Education.
“With each visit, we hope to constantly remind the pupils that through education, they have everything it takes to live a better life, and ultimately their dreams”, she added.
On his part, the Headmaster of Tupaa MA Basic School, Mr. Osman Kweku Eshoun, said: “we are particularly happy about receiving the school bags because the cover pages of our students’ exercise books easily get torn, and in most cases completely come apart, because they have no bag to carry them in. Tigo, we are so grateful to you for this act of love.”
Tigo’s Shelter 4 Education CSR project was launched in 2015.
In this light, four schools were built, and two renovated at select communities across the country.
The beneficiary schools include Obeng Yaw Basic school, Adeiso; Tupaa Basic School, Ga South Municipality, St Joseph Basic School, Obuasi; Ehiawoanwu Basic School, Ejura; The African Faith Primary School, Banda Ahenkro and Dimabi L/A Basic School in the Northern Region