The District Chief Executive for Asikuma Odoben Brakwa Assembly has assured global partners of the Giving for Change Project that every investment made into the Multimedia Group’s Classroom Project at Breman Jamara in the Central Region will be put to good use.   

Literally excited about the impact of the project on his district, Lawrence Edutuah-Asiaw exclaimed - ‘’God richly bless you. I am really grateful. But the assurance I will give you – putting up the project is one thing and utilizing it is another thing…..It is my duty to maintain it and that assurance I’m giving you – that whatever investments that is being made in the district, I am going to make sure one, we put it to good use and ensure a better maintenance culture to sustain the project’’.

The reconstruction of the Breman Jamara D/A Basic School in Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District is one of two interventions by the Multimedia Group to provide two safer school buildings for pupils.

Multimedia Group’s Classroom Project is one of several initiatives under the continental Giving for Change project being spearheaded by the STAR Ghana Foundation and the West Africa Civil Society Institute in Ghana. 

It is also to among others, engender and promote development through self-help initiatives at the local community levels without having to depend on the central government or foreign aid in the wake of the global dwindling donor support.

Some 700 pupils in the Central and Northern Regions are expected to benefit from the Classroom Project after completion.

JoyNews' Senior News Editor Fiifi Koomson and the Classroom Project Lead, Emefa Atiamoah-Eli led the team of global partners to meet with the District Chief Executive of Asikuma Odoben Brakwa, Lawrence Edutuah-Asiaw.  The two, together with the DCE, briefed the delegation on the status of the project and its benefit to the people of Bremana Jamara.

‘’We have steel benders who are offering to support; there’s a value there; we have the Forestry Commission giving us wood – about GHS50, 000 worth of food; we have electricians coming in, we have tillers coming in, we have so many resources from different individuals, different companies just to support this whole project and enterprise’’ – Fiifi Koomson recounted.

The partners asked questions mostly about the significance of the project to the district and how the Multimedia Group is ensuring accountability to all donors and stakeholders.   

On a site tour of the seven space structure with the Education Directorate and traditional leaders, the District Education Director, Seth Emmanuel Panwum told the Multimedia Group, that the intervention by its audiences and clients to put up the school block will prevent further disasters in the community. 

He said that ‘’this is a very wonderful project that Multimedia and STAR Ghana have brought to Breman Jamara and I must say that we are excited because we have a serious deficit in terms of classroom infrastructure. So…by bringing this edifice here, in fact, it will prevent disaster’’.

Gyaasehene of Breman Jamara, Nana Kwesi Ennin III committed to continuing to mobilise communal labour to complete the project.

According to him "the children are aware of the ongoing construction. If we fail as leaders to provide the necessary support for this project to be completed, they will not forgive us’’.

The new Breman Jamara School is a three classroom unit block with an ICT laboratory and library, a Staff Common Room and Headmaster’s office.  It is being funded with cash and in-kind donations from cherished audiences and clients of the Multimedia Group Limited.

Among them are the Forestry Commission, DBS Roofing Sheets, Israeli Embassy, Duraplast Ghana, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, the Planned City Extension Project, Tropical cables and many more. Also, a 94-year-old woman donated part of her monthly pension benefit to support the project.

STAR Ghana Foundation and the West Africa Civil Society Institute are the lead agencies for the Ghana Chapter of the Giving for Change Project, with funding from Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry.