Children’s Fund Commissions Children’s Centre

The Gushiegu District Director of Education in Ghana, Edward Asakya, has commended the Christian Children Fund of Canada (CCFC) for complementing government efforts in the development of education in the district. He said government alone cannot shoulder the responsibility of providing educational infrastructure and so it is in the right direction that CCFC is supporting government.  He made the remarks at the commissioning of a 36,477.00 Ghana cedis Bill Proctor Children's Center in Kutung in the Gushiegu District.  The facility is also endowed with two rain water harvesting tanks, play equipment, furniture and a feeding center where the children would be provided with a meal a day.

In an address, the Country Director of CCFC Ghana, Mrs Sanatu Nantugma said the aim of her outfit is to address the needs of children in deprived areas. She noted that the Millennium Development Goal number two seeks to achieve a universal primary education through ensuring that all girls and boys complete a full course of primary education.  She added that it is for this reason that CCFC in collaboration with Markaz Al-Bishara, a local partner NGO of CCFC, have come to the aid of the people of Kutung to promote the achievement of the MDGs in Kutung.  Madam Sanatu noted that Kutung and its environs in the Gushiegu District are plagued with myriad of developmental problems such as low illiteracy rate due to lack of proper educational facilities, lack of safe drinking water among others. The Country Director disclosed that the center was funded by a Canadian Philanthropist couple in memory of their late son, Bill Proctor.

In a speech read on behalf his behalf by a representative, the District Chief Executive of Gushiegu District, Abukari Mahama said education is the key to the development of any nation and the children of Kutung can not have a secured future if they are not educated. He added that it is therefore essential and vital for children to be targeted so that they can develop and contribute their quota to the development of the country. The DCE charged the people of Kutung to take the opportunity offered them by CCFC and produce the future doctors, engineers and other professionals that the nation needs.

The chief of Kutung, Yakubu Adam on his part thanked CCFC for the numerous support they have offered his community and appealed to other NGO to emulate the example shown by CCFC.

The DCE's representative later inaugurated a Child to Child Health Club and cut the tape to commission the school.