Anlo Literary Project, a community-based not-for-profit organization in Southern Volta has for the past two years rolled out initiatives to encourage children in Ketu South, Anlo, and Keta Municipalities of the Volta Region to embrace education.

On Wednesday, 9 October 2024, the organization held a quiz for basic schools in all three districts. The quiz was on spelling, sentence formation, storyline formation, and pronunciation.

The competition was won by Keta Municipality while Ketu South and Anloga districts tied the second position.

This is the second competition organized by the group.

Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu South, Abla Gomashie urged parents to assist their children to enjoy the full benefits of education.

"Parents, I am on your side but you have to do a little bit more also, you must invest more in your children," she said.

She mentioned that basic education in the country, especially in rural Ghana must witness an improvement, saying "I want to urge the Ministry of Education that by all means increase the number of people who are coming into senior high schools but most importantly find the money, find the resource materials for teaching and learning for the foundation (basic education)".

Executive Director of the Anlo Literary Project, Mama Amegbe, who doubles as the Queen of Anyanui said together with her friends, they birthed the project to enhance learning among children in the Anlo State and adjoining communities.

She said she has observed that children in the area have begun to do well in areas of reading and word formation. The queen expressed her joy for the success they are chalking in the area and called for all hands on the desk to sustain the project.

One of the Anlo Literary Project coordinators, Ado Delali Afi appealed for further aid.

"For the past two years, some of our challenges were financial support, we need more hands on deck to help support Anlo Land and Ghana in reading activities. We also need a lot of volunteers" she said.

A Librarian of the project, Elikplim Kulewoshie said the organization currently has about 3,000 story books which cannot take care of all children in the three districts. He thus appealed for support to purchase more books and also called on Ghanaians to donate books.

He, however, said they have also distributed more than 50,000 books over the past two years.

The Anlo Literary Project currently has a mobile library, and the team moves from one community to the other to share storybooks with children.

Felix NewCoffie Dogbey, Assistant Librarian of the project reiterated the call for support to expand and sustain the initiative.