Ikeve Foundation Donates To Deprived Pupils At Tei Mensah

A non-profit organisation, IKEVE Foundation, based in New Jersey in the United States of America, has donated assorted items to children at Tei Mensah, a deprived community in the Suhum municipality.

The items included 1,000 pencils, commercial battery operated pencil sharpeners, 30 boxes of crayons, 10 story books and two small notice boards.

Other items included four containers of paper glue, 20 pairs of shoe and sandals, 600 used and new clothing, school bags, a storage container and a set of ceramic bowels and cups.

Making the donation, Mrs. Vivian Koranteng Eghan, the Founder of IKEVE Foundation, said their mission is to help poor families in Ghana who find it extremely difficult to provide the basic necessities for their children as a result of abject poverty.

She said IKEVE Foundation helps needy children in Ghana by providing school supplies, clothing, nutrition and other necessities to survive.

"Every child has the opportunity to do something great with their lives we are just providing them a helping hand to make sure they realize that and take steps toward achieving this goal.

"All too often, many children are left to fall through the cracks of society. We want to fill those cracks by providing them with the basic necessities that, unfortunately, so many children in third world countries do not have," she added.

According to Mrs. Koranteng Eghan, she saw the plight and struggles many poor families face feeding their children let alone to provide their educational needs and purposed to offer assistance.

Mrs. Koranteng Eghan said she set up IKEVE Foundation in honour of her father, late Chief superintendent Nana Koranteng Mintah (1942-2010) and sister, Evelyn Mintah Koranyeng Mensha (1975-2014) who died through post-natal complications leaving behind her three biological children and adopted ones who range between the ages of 5 months and 20 years.

She said the Foundation would help families in same plight and those that are just unable to feed and clothe their children.

The Acting Headmaster of Tei Mensah M/A basic school, Mr Michael Aning, thanked the IKEVE Foundation for the donation, saying, it was timely.

He said one of the challenges the teachers faced was pupils coming to school without books, pencils or pens to write, “and some come barefoot."

Mr. Aning said pupils could now have pens and pencils to write for a whole academic year.

He however appealed for more of such assistance and also called on the government to connect Tei Mensah community to the national grid to attract teachers to stay in the area.

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