With no access to computers, teachers in the Kpandai community in the Northern region have had to use imagery in the teaching of ICT.

When a Ghanaian couple from the United States donated a computer lab and a library to the town, it was a joyous occasion.

Students and teachers are now excited to experience what it feels like to use a computer.

Through their NGO, Soles of Hope, Fred Osei-Yeboah and Dr. Opokua Osei-Yeboah are executing life-centered activities, such as providing water and educational infrastructure.

The Osei-Yeboahs, through Soles of Hope, have since 2019 attended to the needs of residents of Kpandai, providing women and children with basic amenities such as water.

The provision of mechanized boreholes to residents in the Kpandai suburb where water is a scarce commodity, came as a relief to the people.

The Don Theobold, Dama Akura and Kpandai Primary Schools are some of the schools that have benefited from the benevolence.

The children are always excited to receive donations in educational materials, including school bags, dresses and shoes.

“They gave us boots, rulers; many shirts and other things. I am going to use the boot for my sporting activities especially. I am a volleyball player. At first, I was not having volleyball boots; when I go, I always wound myself and I don’t know what to do. So, when they gave me these boots, I appreciate them very much,” says Kweibu Augustine, a student at Dontheo Bold JHS.

At the handing over ceremony of the fully-stocked library and computer laboratory to the people of Kpandai, Member of Parliament for the area, Daniel Nsala Wakpal, said the gesture came at the time no student in the area had seen a computer before.

“This facility has come in handy to help this constituency to nurture our students so they can keep pace with other students in the rest of the country and the world”

For Kpandaiwura, Nana Bresiam Okoree Atorsa II, the donation will go a long way to improve education in the area.

He is full of praise to the couple for the gesture which he says is real.

“It has been it’s first kind of a gift to Kpandai people. We have not seen any kind of computer in the area. They see it drawn in books but touching a computer, nobody has given it to us here in Kpandai. The children don’t know what is computer .

Dr. Opokua Osei-Yeboah, a doctor of Public Health in the US explained that, “Every human being was created equally and we all deserve opportunities. It doesn’t matter where you are from. We are all one people; we are all humans.

I just happened to be in Kpandai because the goal is to try to somewhat bridge the education gap.

We can’t compare standards amongst the affluent people and amongst the poor and more so, the rural areas”