NGO SUPPORT 4 DAY-CARE CENTRES (Page 32 lead)

27/03/08
Story: Mary Mensah
The International Child Resource Institute (ICRI), an international NGO, has donated learning materials valued at $12,000 to four neighbourhood day care centres in Accra.
They are the La, Teshie, Osu Presby and Mamprobi Neighbourhood Day Care Centres.
The items included books, stationery, toys, video games, woollen carpets, tables and canopies.
Presenting the items, Mrs Hannah Odjenma Botchway, Country Director of the institute, said last September the NGO organised a training workshop for nursery teachers.
She said the institute had selected the La Neighbourhood Day Care Centre as a model child care centre and had been subsidising the salaries of the teachers and feeding of the children.
Mrs Botchway indicated that ICRI had developed partnership with child and family projects in more than 35 countries and had 52 field representatives around the world.
She expressed the hope that the items would help to unearth the talents of the children and advised the teachers to take good care of them.
Receiving the items on behalf of the centres, Ms Philomena Sackey, Supervisor of the La neighbourhood Day Care Centre, thanked the NGO for the support, which, she said, had motivated the teachers to offer their best.


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Some children of La Neighbourhood Day Care Centre and Osu Presby Kindergarten picking some of the learning materials after the presentation by the International Child Resource Institute at a ceremony in Accra.
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Mrs Hannah Odjenma Botchway (right), Country Director of the International Child Resource Institute, presenting some learning materials to Ms Philomena Sackey (left), Supervisor of the La Neighbourhood Day Care Centre at a ceremony in Accra.