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MTN Ghana Foundation has inaugurated an
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre and Library for the
Aborlove and Nolopi Junior High School in the Volta Region.
The 30-seater capacity ICT Centre would serve as computer training Centre and a reading facility to equip pupils with ICT skills and help improve general academic work.
A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday by Mr Robert Kuzoe, the Executive Secretary, MTN Ghana Foundation, said the Centre would serve a total population of about five thousand people from Aborlove/Nolopi, Anyako, Konu, Seva, Sasieme Afife and its surrounding towns.
It said the project which cost Sixty thousand, three hundred and eighty cedis, was one of MTN's contributions towards improvement ICT education in Ghana.
"ICT had become intricately woven into the very existence and wellbeing of our lives and it was thus necessary for students to be armed with this resource," it said.
The statement said, ICT has become a major learning and development skill and the lack of it is considered a serious development gap.
"The speed with which ICT is developing and its impact on our learning and development cannot be overemphasized due to the changing trends in Technology," it added.
Mr Sylvester Tornyeavah, the Municipal Chief Executive of Keta thanked MTN for the investment in education and asked for more developmental assistance in the area.
Togbi Djisam V, the Dufia of Aborlove and Nolopi, expressed gratitude to the MTN Ghana Foundation for the project.
He appealed to the management of the Foundation to assist the community to build a permanent structure to house its Community Health Planning Services Zone.
It said MTN will continue to invest in ICT projects in the rural areas to help bridge the rural –urban ICT divide.
The MTN Ghana Foundation, has invested over GH¢ 11,000,000.00 in various community development projects in the areas of health and education across the country.
Some of the Projects embarked in the Volta region include: an ICT centre at Adidome, Provision of potable drinking water for Kpeve Tornu community and the refurbishment of the Kpedze Health Centre.
The 30-seater capacity ICT Centre would serve as computer training Centre and a reading facility to equip pupils with ICT skills and help improve general academic work.
A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday by Mr Robert Kuzoe, the Executive Secretary, MTN Ghana Foundation, said the Centre would serve a total population of about five thousand people from Aborlove/Nolopi, Anyako, Konu, Seva, Sasieme Afife and its surrounding towns.
It said the project which cost Sixty thousand, three hundred and eighty cedis, was one of MTN's contributions towards improvement ICT education in Ghana.
"ICT had become intricately woven into the very existence and wellbeing of our lives and it was thus necessary for students to be armed with this resource," it said.
The statement said, ICT has become a major learning and development skill and the lack of it is considered a serious development gap.
"The speed with which ICT is developing and its impact on our learning and development cannot be overemphasized due to the changing trends in Technology," it added.
Mr Sylvester Tornyeavah, the Municipal Chief Executive of Keta thanked MTN for the investment in education and asked for more developmental assistance in the area.
Togbi Djisam V, the Dufia of Aborlove and Nolopi, expressed gratitude to the MTN Ghana Foundation for the project.
He appealed to the management of the Foundation to assist the community to build a permanent structure to house its Community Health Planning Services Zone.
It said MTN will continue to invest in ICT projects in the rural areas to help bridge the rural –urban ICT divide.
The MTN Ghana Foundation, has invested over GH¢ 11,000,000.00 in various community development projects in the areas of health and education across the country.
Some of the Projects embarked in the Volta region include: an ICT centre at Adidome, Provision of potable drinking water for Kpeve Tornu community and the refurbishment of the Kpedze Health Centre.
Business Ghana