The one storey building classroom block for a basic school in the Lower Manya-Krobo Municipality was commissioned at Kodjonya, near Odumase-Krobo on Wednesday for the Kodjonya Millennium Presbyterian School Complex.
The 230,000 Ghana cedis project was financed by MTN Foundation and it include six classrooms, head teacher's office, computer room, staff common room, store room and a technical drawing unit.
As part of the commissioning ceremony, the MTN Foundation launched the celebration of it’s fifth anniversary in the country.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Lower Manya Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Isaac Tettey Agbo, said, within the last four years, the government had constructed 41 school projects in the municipality.
He said it was expected that the provision of such facilities in both the first and second cycle institutions would help improve teaching and learning in the municipality and positively affect academic performance of students and pupils.
He said the municipal assembly supported the project with 17 computers, an air conditioner for the computer room and furniture, all at the cost of 20,000 Ghana Cedis.
Mr Agbo expressed the appreciation of government and the people of Lower Manya-Krobo Municipality for the numerous support that the MTN Foundation had provided the community including the construction of an access road to their mast in the municipality.
Ms Irene Ayernor, Municipal Director of Education, called on parents to support the education of their wards by providing them with their educational needs and urged the teachers and managers of the school to put in place a maintenance plan to help maintain the building.
She appealed for support for the construction of a befitting office block complex for the Lower Manya-Krobo Education Unit.
Ms Cynthia Lumor, Corporate Services Executive of MTN, who lunched the anniversary, said since it's establishment five years ago, the foundation had invested over 1.1 million Ghana cedis in various projects in the Eastern Region.
She said as part of the celebration, the foundation would be holding a forum on the theme: "Celebrating Five Years of Sustainable Corporate Social Intervention in Ghana".
Ms Lumor said in addition to the forum, a number of debates would be organised and some projects would be launched while others would be commissioned to mark the celebrations.
Ms Juliana Maku Baidoo, Headmistress of the Kodjonya Millennium Presbyterian School Complex, said it would be a challenge to teach a class of 40 with 17 computers and therefore appealed for more computers to make the teaching of Information and Communication Technology more interesting to the pupils of the school.