Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) has awarded a grant of $3million to Ghana’s Ministry of Education for the development of education infrastructure.
It is understood that the grant will be drawn from ASR Africa’s annual $100million Africa Fund for Social Development and Renewal.
The announcement of the grant was made during the presentation of the letter of award to the Ghanaian government at the Jubilee House in Accra, the country’s capital.
President Nana Akufo-Addo had said in March 2020 that his government was investing heavily in the provision of educational infrastructure in senior high schools across the country, particularly in those running the double track system.
With 1.2 million children enrolled in senior high schools across the country at the time, the president explained that the expansion in access, automatically, brought with it a problem of infrastructure.
Managing Director of ASR Africa, Udoh Ubon, commended the President Akufo-Addo for his commitment to developing the educational system at all levels in the West African country.
According to Ubon, this award was significant because Ghana is also the first African country beneficiary of an ASR Africa grant after Nigeria.
‘We believe this $3million ASR Africa education infrastructure grant will go a long way in supporting the eradication of ‘schools under trees’ across the country whilst developing primary education infrastructure across the country’, Ubon said in a statement.
Receiving the ASR Africa delegation on behalf of the government, Chief of Staff in the Office of the President, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, thanked ASR Africa for the grant.
She said that the government will work together with ASR Africa based on the agreed mutual accountability framework to come up with a programme to build several primary schools across Ghana under the grant.
‘Abdul Samad Rabiu and ASR Africa will remain an active partner in solving developmental issues across the continent. Ghana is just the start and more African countries are set to benefit this year’, Ubon added.
ASR Africa was established in 2021 to provide sustainable, impact-based homegrown solutions to developmental issues affecting health, education and social development in Africa.
Source: ASR Africa
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