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Compassion
Ghana, a NGO, has commissioned a computer resource centre at the Redemption Hour
Child Development Centre (CDC) to improve teaching and learning of Information
Communication Technology among children in Accra.
The facility which costs 54,000 dollars includes 36 computers,
two printers, projector, photocopy machine and some computer books.
The
project initiated in partnership with the Redemption Hour Faith Ministry, is
aimed at equipping the children of Redemption Hour CDC to acquire the skills
and knowledge in ICT and to help them develop their spiritual life,
socio-emotional life.
Commissioning the project, Mr Justice Dadson, Partner
Preparation Specialist of Compassion Ghana, said before the project started
about 92 per cent of the registered children of Redemption Hour CDC attended
schools without an ICT facility.
“So
the general objective of this intervention is to improve teaching and learning
at the Centre by enabling the registered children to have access to ICT
resource centre”, he said.
He
said it was important that children become more familiar with ICT at an early
age to help them acquire the needed skills in ICT to climb the educational
ladder adding that they would need it more in future as the world is moving to
technology world.
“In
this dynamic world it will get to a time that your illiteracy in ICT will not
only make you less useful in an organization but you may also not be to survive
in an industrialized community”, he noted.
Mr
Dadson commended Redemption Hour CDC for taking the right step in establishing
the computer laboratory.
He
urged them to take good care of the center so that it would achieve its
intended purpose.
Speaking of behalf of Redemption CDC, Madam Doris Van Dyck,
acknowledged the importance of the project saying “it will help alleviate the
concerns of the needy children in the community be it in education, health,
clothing and feeding to a certain level where each child would be able to cater
for his or herself”.
She
commended Compassion Ghana for their effort and assured them of
Redemption Hour CDC’s commitment to maintain and properly manage the centre for
achieve its stated purpose.
Ghana News Agency