Airtel Ghana has promised to provide the only primary school in Kanjaga at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana, with teaching and learning materials as well as ICT equipment.

The promise was made during the recent episode of the ongoing Airtel Touching Lives season three.

Kanjaga is a community where the pupil-teacher ratio is estimated at 1,000 to one, and girls in that community as simply not encouraged to go to school.

Inhabitants of Kanjaga are mostly peasant farmers, and in spite of their hard work, the area is highly impoverished.

The town is woefully bereft of proper schools as the few ones found there are nothing to write home about.

Airtel Ghana therefore announced it would stock the ICT centre of the only primary school in the community with computers and accessories.

This, according to Airtel, is in appreciation of the selfless efforts of the few teachers in the school.

Additionally, pupils of the school will benefit from teaching and training in ICT and receive books and learning materials to facilitate their education.

The beneficiaries of the assistance from Airtel Touching Lives said they were energised by the gesture to “even do more for the children and by extension the community.”

The recent episode also featured the Physiotherapy Department of the Central Regional Hospital, which is also  set to receive support from Airtel Touching Lives, having been nominated by Daniel Osei Twumasi, a teacher whose third born was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, a disorder which involves the brain and nervous system.

The department is understaffed, and does not have space and the requisite equipment to carry out rehabilitation of persons with malfunctioning body parts.

Airtel Touching Lives has therefore promised to donate some Physiotherapy equipment to the department so they can handle cases more effectively.

Beyond that gesture, Mr Twumasi was also presented with some play things which will aid his son to get active again.

Airtel promised that it Airtel Touching Lives programme will continue to encourage Ghanaians to seek to change their communities and their own lives for the better.

Those who are supported under the initiative are usually nominated by anyone who thinks the person awarded deserves to be commended. It can be a family member, a colleague, a friend or even a community.

“One can nominate a school but there needs to be a person behind the nomination. We can award a dream to the school but we need to know what the individuals behind the school have done to make the school special,” the Telco points out.

After the nomination, the Airtel “Touching Lives” team visits the nominees in their communities to interact with them and finally invite them into the “Airtel Touching Lives” studio where they are presented with their rewards.

Airtel Touching Lives is an annual television programme which helps identify people who have excelled in life in spite of challenging circumstances, as well as people who have helped to bring about changes in communities they live in.

The current season of Airtel Touching Lives is theme “make your change”.

It shows on Multi TV (Joy News) on Friday, Multi TV (Cine Afrik, Joy TV, Hitz TV, Adom TV) on Saturday and on other TV stations.