ABL donates to World Vision

Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) has donated 1,999 “Tutu” desks to World Vision Ghana under the “Tutu Desk Campaign”.

The items, which were worth over GH¢23,000, were donated as part of ABL’s corporate social investment activities in the country.

The donation was the outcome of a partnership between the company and World Vision Ghana with the aim of improving children’s access to quality education, Legal Affairs Director of ABL, Adjoba Kyiamah, said.

“The donation is therefore a first step in a partnership to assist deprived children in Ghana access quality education to improve their learning outcomes.”

She said the desks will be used by school children – who are currently using stones or the floor as surface for their books when they write – in the Sene, Savelugu Nanton and Bawku West districts in the Brong Ahafo, Northern and Upper East Regions of the country.

She said ABL is further making available to World Vision an amount of GH¢6,860 to facilitate transportation and distribution of the “Tutu” desks to the beneficiary districts for onward delivery to children in the selected schools.

“We at Accra Brewery Limited believe in supporting the communities in which we operate because our success depends on the success of these communities

“Travelling across the length and breadth of the country, we have seen children in several communities attending school without essential amenities such as desks and chairs.  That is why when we heard about the work of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Desk Campaign, we thought it was a brilliant idea and decided to implement it here in Ghana,” she added.

Mr. Hubert Charles, who received the desks on behalf of World Vision, said they believe that a flat writing surface, such as the “Tutu desk” would greatly improve learning conditions for the children.

“This means that some of the teaching problems such as writing a story or solving an arithmetic problem, which is usually done by balancing a book on the knee or the hand, or writing on the back of a classmate or the bare earth, will be addressed.”

Tutu Desks are portable school desks (flat surface writing boards) provided by the Tutu Desk Campaign (whose patron is Archbishop Desmond Tutu) to children in sub-Saharan Africa who do not have the benefit of a classroom desk.

So far, over one million desks have been distributed across sub-Saharan Africa.

Adjoba Kyiamah, Corporate/Legal Affairs Director of ABL, presenting the Tutu Desks and a cheque to Hubert Charles, the National Director of World Vision Ghana

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