IT firm supports Odobeng Presby Basic A school with computers

SNEW Ghana, an IT firm that deals in refurbished computers have supported Odobeng Presby Basic A school in the Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa district with 20 pieces of computers and a projector.

According to the IT firm they were touched by the story of 57-year-old Elizabeth Yamoahm, a Basic Education Certificate Examination graduate from the school who despite her age was determined to pursue academic excellence.

Elizabeth Yamoah popularly known as Auntie Lizzie in a Citi News interview last year when she was writing her BECE indicated that although she was going to write the ICT exams during her BECE she had not had the opportunity to use a computer.

The story according to Evans Quaye the team leader of SNEW Ghana touched their heart to support the school.

“I was touched to hear that someone would have gone through the educational system, must have studied ICT without any computer. It was a shock to me, so we decided to help Elizabeth Yamoah and the school,” Evans Quaye the team leader told Citi News.

According to him, the gesture is part of the social responsibility to close the digital gap in a developing country like Ghana.

He noted that although they are a profit-making firm they were touched by the story and the quest to improve the ICT base of the children in that school.

“It is part of our social responsibility to close the digital gap between the developed and the developing world. So once we are a profit-making firm we decided to use part of our profit to do things like this.” the team leader said.

“But the money is not the problem it is about the children learning ICT and if they take their stifles seriously one of them can become an ICT technician, and it will go a long way to help the economy, Evans Quaye said.

District Director of Education for Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa Robert Kwamina Asumanin who was speaking at the handing over ceremony of the computers to the school noted that government must make the non-formal school functional in other to make way for many like auntie Lizzie who has the desire to further their education.

“It is about time we take our adult educational system seriously to help others like auntie Lizzie who do not have the courage to mingle with younger ones to school, “the District Director of education said.

57-year-old Elizabeth Yamoah the BECE graduate who spoke to Citi News is optimistic that her story will motivate others no matter their age to pursue higher education.

“I was determined to go to school, although people laughed at me in my village because I had a vision and plan for myself, I did not listen to anyone and today look at the honour it has brought to me,” she added.