Edmond Gyebi
10 July 2009
Tamale — The Tiyumba Youth Association, a development-oriented organisation based in Dagban Dab-ba fong in the Tamale Metropolis, has donated school uniforms worth several millions of cedis to the Al-Islahiya English and Arabic Primary School located behind the old Tamale Sports stadium at the Kalladan Barracks.
The donation was to complement the government's promise of providing free school uniforms to basic school pupils nationwide.
Mohammed Yussif Afa Doo, Chairman of the Association, flanked by other executive members, made the presentation with a pledge to extend similar donations to other deprived schools in the Tamale metropolis, and beyond.
Mohammed Afa Doo hinted that the Tiyumba Youth Association was lobbying development partners in and outside Ghana to put the Al-Islahiya Primary School in a good shape, as it is currently in a very deplorable state.
Explaining the rational behind such a kind gesture, Yussif Afa Doo said it came to the notice of members that a lot of the pupils wore multi-coloured uniforms to school, and so the association felt it wise to assist some of the pupils with school uniforms for easy identification.
He unveiled the association's intention to assist the school to extend its infrastructural development, by putting up complete structures to enable the school authorities admit more students.
Afa Doo appealed to the people of northern extraction, who have good financial standing, to invest in Northern Ghana, and assist the deprived communities in the areas of education, health and agriculture.
This, he noted, would go a long way to alleviate the plight of the suffering masses, who have been bedeviled with myriad of socio-economic problems, as a means of improving their livelihood.
Sheikh Ahmed Muktar Mohammed, Proprietor of the school, commended the Tiyumba Youth Association for the kind gesture, and appealed to other philanthropists, government and non-governmental organisations to assist the school.
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