The management of Millicom Ghana, operators of
Tigo mobile service, is to complete a two-classroom block for the Opportunities Industrialisation Centre (OIC) as part of the company's corporate social responsibility initiative dubbed "Tigo Day Caring."
The 60 capacity building when completed would be used as an Information Technology (IT) and Engineering class.
Tigo would also make available a year financial support package to two brilliant students from the Information Technology Department of the School.
Mr Christophe Soulet, General Manager of Tigo, announced this at the launch of this year's "Tigo Day Caring" initiative on Wednesday in Accra.
He explained that the Day Caring initiative was aimed at assisting deprived communities and supporting health related issues, as well as job
creation.
Mr Soulet said this year's project sought to complement government's quest to improve access to quality education to all. "There are thousands of Ghanaians obtaining opportunities which would otherwise have been very difficult to achieve."
Giving a brief background, Mr Kweku Asomani Asante, Director of OIC, noted that the school since its establishment about 30 years ago, had
trained about 10, 000 youth with employable skills in the fields of engineering, catering, electricals, textiles, graphic design, carpentry,
masonry and auto mechanics.
He said it had distinguished itself from other vocational and technical institutions by admitting Senior High School graduates with low aggregates, as well as orphans in the Accra Metropolis who were vocational oriented.
On the school's output to the nation's human resources development, Mr Asante noted that a total of about 500 students graduate with employable skills annually.
He thanked the management of Tigo for the gesture and appealed to other institutions and philanthropists to come to the aid of the school.