THE Afram Publications Ghana Limited has donated assorted educational materials worth GH¢500 and a cheque for GH¢1,000 to the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District secretariat of the Centre for National Culture (CNC).
The items, comprising textbooks for English, Mathematics and Twi as well as several novels, would be given out as prizes to basic schools which would take part in a quiz competition to be organised by the CNC in the district.
The donation was in response to an appeal the CNC made to the company to help inculcate reading habit into pupils of both private and public basic schools in the Suhum town.
Presenting the items, the Eastern Regional Marketing Officer of the Afram Publications, Mr Adamu Fuseini, expressed the delight of his outfit to be associated with efforts at encouraging schoolchildren in the area to develop reading habit.
He pledged the commitment of Afram Publications to provide free educational materials annually to some of the basic schools in the area to raise the academic performance of the beneficiary pupils.
The Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District Officer of the CNC, Mr Patrick Adjeitey, who received the items, thanked the donor for the gift.
He stated that since the libraries of most basic schools in the area lacked essential reading materials, most of the pupils had taken to bad habits such as smoking, drinking and attending video centres during school hours.
According to Mr Adjeitey, such unfortunate situation had contributed to the poor academic performance of some of the basic schools in the area.
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