THE SOS Children’s Village in Ghana, one of the International Children’s Homes specially designed to see to the upbringing and the wellbeing of orphans and other deprived children in society is currently constructing a three unit classroom block for the Zoozugu Community, one of the most deprived communities in the Tamale Metropolis.
The GH¢36,000.00 project is purposely to support the large number of school going children in the community to have access to quality education in order to become responsible and useful citizens in future. The Project is being financed by Plan Pool Ghana, Frankatson Limited, Management and Staff of SOS Village and Akua Kwakwa Company Limited.
The Zoozugu Community which is several kilometers away from the Central Business District of the Tamale Metropolis has so many children of school going ages but the lack of educational facilities in the area continues to deprive them of their rights to even basic education.
The Only muddy structure which was constructed several years ago by the community members was raised down by a heavy storm some four years ago. Ever since, majority of the children of the village who were in school had withdrawn from school and others are supporting their parents on the farm, while the few others who were able to stay in school are now being hosted under trees.
Cutting sod for the construction of the three Unit classroom block at Zoozugu, the National Director of the SOS Children’s Village, Mr. Alexander Kakula said that the SOS Village had a great responsibility of securing a better future for all underprivileged children across the globe.
According to him, the structure is being put up to save the innocent school children and their teachers from continuing to suffer the bad weather condition under which they studied. The children and their teachers always run for cover anytime there was heavy downpour or storms and also end classes abruptly.
Even though the SOS Children’s Village as the name depicts is largely depended on supports from donor agencies and on divine providence for its survival, it has been able to mobilize funds to the tune of GH¢36,000.00 to support other equally underprivileged children in the deprived community of Zoozugu.
Mr. Alexander Kakula who was flanked by the Director of the Tamale SOS Village , Mr. Christopher Lugutera and other officers, therefore appealed to parents in the community to take advantage of the new school building and enroll their children rather than sending them to the farm.
The Assemblyman for the Area, Abu Haruna commended the management of the SOS Village for not considering their own vulnerability and their little resources, but to extend that support to the children in Zoozugu community. He said the facility would not benefit only the children of the Zoozugu but those in its surrounding areas.
The Assemblyman also assured the financiers of the readiness of the youth in the community to assist the contractors with the needed labour to complete the work in time.
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