UN DAY
On Thursday
24 October was World Development Information Day and also United Nations Day. The
General Assembly in 1972 instituted World Development Information Day to draw
the attention of world public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen
international cooperation to solve them. On this day, Patriots Ghana Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Chapter (www.patriotsghana-knust.webs.com)
in collaboration with their partner organization Esyllabus for Africa( www.esyllabusforafrica.org) celebrated the day by visiting three schools in the
Sekyere Kumawu District. The schools were Effiduase Demonstration JHS, Oyoko DA
Primary and Oyoko Methodist Primary and JHS. The Director of Esyllabus for
Africa, Mr. Henry Howard together with the President of Patriots Ghana KNUST
Emmanuel Yamoah and members from the KNUST chapter gave a talk on the
importance of reading, effective skills in reading, the importance of
education, and sources of good reading materials. Mr. Henry Howard also led the
team to install a free offline library kit and Wikipedia for all the
schools. The kit comes with English and
French learning tools, videos on different subjects of study and many sources
of learning materials that are a good substitute for library books. The team
also used the opportunity to talk to the students about the United Nations,
their activities, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and how they can contribute
towards it being achieved for instance by staying in school and helping
everyone else to also get an education. The students were encouraged to develop
the habit of making good use of the internet, the library kit, computers and
all relevant sources of information. Furthermore, the team interacted with the
teachers of all the schools and showed them how they could make good use of the
library kit. The team also donated an esyllabus customized flash drive to the
schools with library kit to serve as a backup and also to be used for future
installations on the schools computers and that of the staff.
Information
and communications technologies have the potential to provide new solutions to
development challenges, particularly in the context of globalization, and can
foster economic growth, competitiveness, access to information and knowledge,
poverty eradication and social inclusion (United Nations).
Patriots
Ghana would like to say a big thank you to Esyllabus for Africa for responding
to our request to install the offline library kit for free for the three
schools. We would also like to invite all to join us contribute towards
developing our nation with passion.
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