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Telecommunications giant MTN Ghana Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Selorm Adadevoh has donated four laptops to the New Asafo Basic School in the Asokwa Metropolitan Assembly in Ashanti as part its commitment to improve education in Ghana as they mark Y’ellow Care Event.
It’s an annual event by the MTN Ghana and its staff dedicating 21 days in June every year aiming at impacting social projects to uplift and empower the local communities in which the company operates.
MTN Ghana Chief Executive Officer, Selorm Adadevoh who donated the items explained at the presentation, that the gesture is part of MTN 21 days Yello care to help the less privileged and institutions in society in the month of June every year.
Selorm Adadevoh said this year the focus is on ICT and Digital Skill Training for school.
He emphasised that ICT has become extremely important globally.
He implied that Ghana will be left out of the global competitiveness if we don’t start to educate the students in ICT.
Selorm Adadevoh stressed that the goal of MTN Ghana is to support everything the government is doing in ICT.
“If we don’t start educating our students from basic level then we will be left behind in the global competitiveness at some point in the future. Our goal is to support everything the government is doing to promote I.C.T to build the necessary skills of our children” he stated.
The headteacher of the school, Madam Grace Opoku Konadu on behalf of the school commended MTN CEO Selorm Adadevoh for the kind gesture and as Oliver Twist call for more from other cooperate societies.
“Lack of ICT facilities is hampering the effective teaching of the subject and academic performance of the students because we don’t have computers, teachers teach I.C.T with their personal laptops, due to that controlling the class can be quite difficult, we want to thank MTN for this gesture and we hope other corporate bodies will emulate the gesture,” she said.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
