Voltic Donates 2,000 'Tutu Desks' To Deprived Schools

Voltic (GH) Limited, producers of Voltic Natural Mineral Water, has handed over 2,200 'Tutu desks' valued at GHC127,130.00  to World Vision Ghana for onward distribution to school children in deprived communities.

The annual project, which started in 2012, has over the years benefited over 4,000 school children in more than 40 primary schools, who lack essential items.

At the ceremony to present the Tutu desk to World Vision, Philip Redman, General Manager of Voltic (GH) Limited stated that 'We endeavour to create shared opportunities by reinvesting beyond our value chain.  By ensuring the availability of some basic amenities, like teaching and learning materials, Voltic is supporting the government's efforts in providing accessible education for future generations.'

Receiving the items on behalf of World Vision Ghana, National Director, Hubert Charles, commended Voltic and stressed that 'Education is the keyhole through which we all must pass to have a chance at a good life.  World Vision will not relent to provide children, especially the most vulnerable, opportunity to have the best of education in Ghana.'

Tutu desks are portable school desks (flat surface writing boards).

The project was initiated by the Tutu desk Campaign, whose patron is South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

It is aimed at providing writing surfaces for children in Sub-Saharan Africa who do not have the benefit of a classroom desk.  The absence of a writing surface has been found to affect the handwriting, concentration and overall academic performance of these children.

Voltic (GH) Limited's partnership with World Vision Ghana to bring Tutu desk to children in deprived communities in Ghana is in line with Voltic's corporate objective of supporting initiatives that seek to improve access to primary education and improvement in educational infrastructure.