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Parents urged to educate their
handicapped children
Koforidua, March 22, GNA - The Acting Eastern Regional
Director of Education, Ms. Felicia Duku has urged parents to
educate their handicapped children since they had the
ability to perform as the other children.
She said such children rather needed exposure to help them
develop their talents and potential because they were
already disadvantaged.
Ms. Duku made the remarks at awards ceremony to climax the
50th anniversary of the Regional Library at Koforidua, when
the Unit School of the Deaf received awards for their art
works.
As part of the 50th anniversary, the Regional Library
organized a series of competitions for schools in the
municipality and the unit School for the Deaf was the only
handicapped school that took part in the competition.
Ms Duku thanked the Library Board for their contribution
towards quality education in the area and urged students to
take advantage of the library to read and acquire knowledge
for themselves.
He told the students that without the habit of reading,
academic laurels could not be achieved and they could end up
becoming educated illiterate.
The Deputy Director of the Ghana Library Board, Mr Adjei
Appenteng, commended the New Juaben Municipal Assembly for
single handedly constructing a 3.5 billion cedi library
complex.
In his welcoming address, the Regional Director of the
Library Board, Mr Oscar Zandoh, said the regional library
was opened in 1957, hence the quiz competition to
commemorate the anniversary.
He said apart from providing books for teaching, research
and leisure, the regional library also support the
educational institutions by providing complementary reading
materials to their school libraries.
Mr Zandoh said the old regional library had outlived its
usefulness, since it could no longer accommodate people who
visit the place and thanked the assembly for the
construction of a new library.
He thanked the sponsors of the awards for the program and
appealed for more of such support to sustain the library.
GNA
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