Mama Agbaledzokpui II presenting an item to pupil
BY: Akpabli Daniel YAO-Dzodze/VR
Queen mother of Dzodze Afetefe, Mama Agbaledzokpui II, through her foundation, has donated library books to some schools in Dzodze, the municipal capital of Ketu North in the Volta Region
The beneficiary schools include the Dzodze Roman Catholic (RC) Central Basic School and Dzodze Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Primary School.
According to Mama Agbaledzokpui II, the books are to help improve teaching and learning in selected schools.
said it is the desire of her foundation to promote good education in Ketu North, hence the gesture.
She assured that “with time, we’ll be visiting to see how teaching and learning is improving and the challenges they are facing to see how to help.”
With this, she hopes the initiative would enable school children to be at par with their counterparts in the cities.
She also noted that educational success is a collective responsibility, adding that government needs the support of citizens.
“Even though government introduced Free SHS and free feeding, government alone cannot do it all so it is necessary for parents to also help by buying books to improve their child’s future,” she said
She also took the advantage to advice the pupils, especially the girls, to take their studies serious and avoid teenage pregnancy, adding that girl-child education is the foundation’s topmost priority.
Mama Agbaledzokpui II again advised the students to observe personal hygiene and all the Covid-19 protocols to stop the spread.
However, the headmaster of Dzodze RC Central School, Mr Ben Dzata, expressed his gratitude and thanked the Mama Agbaledzokpui II Foundation for the gesture and promised to put the books to good use to the benefit of the students.
On the other hand, the acting headmistress of Dzodze EP Primary School, Madam Grace Akpaka, said the books will help advance leaning among students.
“My expectation is to receive more of this to advance learning. I’m pleading with the general public, especially old students, to also come to our aid because we have books but no classrooms,” she appealed.
During five-year existence of the Mama Agbaledzokpui II Foundation, it has extended a hand to school children, market folks and the less privileged in the Ketu North Municipality.
The aim of the foundation is to assist the youth, especially females, to stay in school until they have reached the stage where they are capable of determining their own path to a sustainable future.