The Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG) has donat­ed textbooks to the Ada­klu-Vodze Basic School in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region, to encourage chil­dren to cultivate the habit of reading at an early stage to promote their education.

Presenting the books, the Managing Director (MD) of the CBG, Dr Naomi Wolali Kwetey, said the Bank was not only concentrating on financial activities but also committed to the education of children at the basic level.

Dr Kwetey explained that the objective of CBG was to build a strong foundation for children at the basic level of education, particularly to promote the culture of read­ing among pupils to enable them to engage in a mean­ingful academic journey.

She stressed that CBG be­lieved that literacy was the foundation on which children built their dreams, there­fore the Bank was making conscious efforts to ensure an effective education of children through improved reading abilities that would influence their future.

She said “by providing our children with resources, we support their educational de­velopment and instil a sense of pride in their own stories and our shared history,” she stressed.

Dr Kwetey therefore asked pupils to learn hard, and read regularly to let their imagina­tions run with them, saying it was important to take their lessons seriously to enable them to become responsible adults in future.

Receiving the items, the head teacher of Adaklu-Vodze Basic School, Mr Edward Dzidza, thanked the manage­ment of CBG for the gesture, and said the textbooks would definitely promote quality teaching and learning in the school.

Mr Dzidza explained that the school did not have adequate reading materi­als, compelling two or three pupils to share one textbook, and was happy that the 700 reading materials provided for the school would ensure that each child would get access to one textbook.

 From Samuel Agbewode, Adakul- Vodze