The Ghana 60 Years On planning committee has teamed up with West Blue Consulting to launch the Ghana@60 e-library project across the 10 regions of the country.
The project seeks to improve literacy skills with attendant impact on poverty, health, gender equality, and social mobility.
Speaking at the media launch in Accra on Friday, 10 March, Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh pledged his ministry’s support to ensure the success of the project.
“It will surprise most people here that 60 years on, we have only 60 public libraries, so we are developing Ghana library at the rate of one every year. So with this project you are helping us achieve in a year what has taken Ghana 60 years to have. Within a year, hopefully, we are going to double it to 120. … Ghana is thankful for that,” he stated.
The Minister hinted at plans to start something he calls a reading week where politicians and stakeholders will go to various schools to help pupils with reading.
For her part, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of West Blue Consulting, Valentina Mintah, said the project would ensure that marginalised groups in society are empowered to contribute to Ghana’s future.
“As a proud African and fiercely Ghanaian ICT solutions company, we are very passionate about the role information, communication and technology plays in our society and believe that the Ghana@60 library programme will ensure that the marginalised groups in the selected areas are empowered with knowledge to participate fully and actively in society,” she said.
“With access to information and technology in their local communities, not only will community members be able to better communicate but our girls will be able to embrace their feminism and be strong, our boys mighty and constructive, our youth to dream big, complemented by sound life plans. The adults and elderly will not be left out, especially those born before computers. The Ghana@60 library programme will cater for them too, ensuring that they are up skilled to participate in today’s technology world while equipping them to effectively parent today’s Snapchat and Instagram child.”
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) presented a cheque of GHS250,000 to the Ghana 60 Years On planning committee while Access Bank presented GHS500,000 for the year-long anniversary.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
