The Volunteers for International Organisation (VIMA), in collaboration with USA partners, have constructed and handed over a fully equipped modern library to the residents of Saviefe Gbedome in the Ho West District of the Volta Region – a project which costs $32,000, an equivalent of Gh₵204,800, including computers and a one-year internet supply.
The facility, named Hazel Community Library and Laboratory, is equipped with books and computers, a network printer and is connected to the Internet to be used by all community children and orphans and needy children under VIMA scholarship at the VIMA children home located in Gbedome.
Founders of USA partners and major donors to the library project, Steve and Susie Portz, disclosed that the Hazel Community Library was to honour Susie’s mother. She loved to make an impact on the lives of children through reading.They assured VIMA of their continuous support to the organisation to undertake more developmental projects in communities in Ghana.
The District Chief Executive for Ho West, Ernest Victor Apau, urged the community to take advantage of the facility and help their children improve on reading and their knowledge in ICT.
District Director of Education, Celestine S.A Korsi-Agordo, commended VIMA and their partners, Steve and Susie Portze for their contribution towards quality education in the District. She reiterated the importance of the library and advised the chief and people not to make the facility a white elephant but to put it to the utmost use and maintain it. “I hope this edifice will help improve on the outcome of the BECE examinations,” she said.
VIMA organisation has been solving the educational needs of children, especially the orphaned and the needy in the less deprived communities.
Source : JoyOnline
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