MOBILE Telecommunications Network (MTN) Ghana Foundation, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has commissioned a 20-seater Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre at Pwalugu in the Talensi District.
The effort is to enhance the teaching and learning of ICT among students of the area.
The facility would also render mobile banking services and secretarial services such as typing and photocopies to the Pwalugu community and its environs.
Commissioning the project at Pwalugu, Mr Robert Kuzoe, the Executive Secretary of the foundation, said the commissioning of the ICT centre formed part of an initiative to furnish 10 ICT centres across the 10 regions in the country.
He said they would be furnished with 220 desktops computers, 10 laptops, 10 projectors, 10 colour printers, 10 photocopiers, 10 scanners and furniture.
The Executive Secretary said the MTN Foundation has invested about 75 major educational projects, which include the construction of 28 ICT centres across the country.
He said the effort was to help bridge existing infrastructural gaps and that the foundation took it upon itself as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility to provide the facility in many of the deprived areas in the 10 regions.
Mr Alosibah Azam, the assemblyman for the Pwalugu Electoral Area, commended MTN for the support and said it would help provide ICT training and services to students and teachers in the seven catchment communities in the area.
In a related development, MTN Ghana Foundation, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has constructed an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre at Tolon to serve as a training centre on basic ICT skills.
The facility, stocked with 20 fully-connected computers, amongst other ICT gadgets, is to help facilitate computer literacy education in the Tolon District.
Mr Robert Kuzoe, Executive Secretary of MTN Ghana Foundation, said there is the need to integrate ICT into the educational system to enable children adopt ICT into their lifestyles.
Mr Louis Kuukpen, Assistant Country Director of UNDP, urged residents to make good use of the ICT facility to keep pace with those in urban areas.
Major Sulemana Abubakari (Rtd), Regent of Tolon Traditional Area, expressed the hope that the facility would improve education, as well as help to address the information needs of graduates in the district.
Meanwhile, MTN Ghana Foundation has held the grand finale of its Reading Club project in Tamale and awarded 18 children with various prizes, including mathematical sets and school bags, for excelling in the competition while the overall winner took home GHȻ200, amongst other packages.
The event was the third edition of MTN Ghana Foundation’s Reading Clubs project, which was initiated in 2013 to create a platform for children between the ages of eight and 14 years to read and enhance their literary skills.
Mr Kuzoe expressed the hope that the reading clubs would ignite a passion for reading among children, adding that MTN Ghana Foundation would establish additional reading clubs to encourage more children to read.
MTN Ghana Foundation is the charity wing of telecom giants Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN)
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