27 GIRLS RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP PACKAGES

27 GIRLS RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP PACKAGES
The Nanumba North District Directorate of Ghana education service in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) has organized a scholarship award ceremony for 27 girls in Bibimbila to award brilliant but needy students in the district. Presenting the awards, the District Coordinator of the Girl-Child Education of WFP,Abukari Ramatu disclosed that the 27 award winners this year is an improvement over the previous awards in the 2008/2009 academic year when only 10 girls benifited. She said the scholarship package seeks to alleviate poverty and improve girl-child education in the district. Each of the award winners took away home Six hundred Ghana cedis and exercise books. The beneficiary schools include twenty-two girls from the E.P demonstration, four from the Our Lady of Peace and one from Pusuga Junior high School. The District Chief Executive for Nanumba North, Mohammed Ibn Abass, in a speech read on his behalf, expressed gratitude to World Food Programme for understanding the plight of the less privileged in the society by coming in to sponsor the 27 girls in their various schools. He called on civil society organization to emulate the kind gesture showed by the organization. The DCE stressed the importance of girl-child education and urged parents to enroll their children in school since education is the key to the reduction of poverty, hunger and ignorance in the society.