Mr. Sylvester Atitsogbe, the Executive Director of Volunteers For Amelioration Rural Areas (VARAS), a non-governmental organization (NGO), has said many rural children are potential world class professionals yearning for support to develop their talents.
He said his organization and Mission de Solidarite Responsible International (MRS) were working hard to ameliorate disparities in
educational opportunities and quality between children in rural areas and their urban colleagues.
Mr Atitsogbe said VARAS has therefore deployed some of its members to teach in the rural areas.
He was speaking at the presentation of some items to the Drifting Angels Home, an Orphanage at Tsito-Awudome in the Ho municipal area by MRS
of Canada in collaboration with VARAS.
The items included six bags of rice, three gallons of cooking oil, two cartons of key soap, 80 bags of pure water, pairs of
sandals and educational materials worth about 2,291 Ghana Cedis.
Ms. Elnaz Balashi, Vice President of MSR and leader of a 10-man MSR delegation in the country, said her organization was working to assist
children in rural Ghana to develop their talents academically.
She said MSR had also donated medical equipments worth over 1,000 dollars to the Agotime Kpetoe Mobile Clinic in the Adaklu Anyigbe
District.
Mrs. Elizi Mama Asem, owner of the Orphanage, expressed gratitude to MSR saying the donation came at the right time.
She said the Orphanage has 141 children and 19 are in Senior High Schools and two in the university.
Mrs. Asem said the Orphanage, which is far from town, needed classrooms for the children who now have to walk long distances to attend school in town.