Betenase Community Gets Model Lab

The Betenase Community in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality of the Ashanti Region has been provided with a model 48-seater computer laboratory to enhance the teaching and learning of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Friends of Yamoransa and Helping Africa Foundation, both non-profit organisations in the USA, would on Friday, September 21, commission the lab dubbed: 'Yamoransa Model Lab-3 Project' and a Community Centre.

The facilities would be used by school children in Betenase and six other schools in communities around Sekyedumase.

The lab was established in response to a social media post shared by Mr Richard Akoto Appiah, a teacher of the Betenase M. A. School, exhibiting his teaching efforts in ICT.

Mr Appiah's social media post, which attracted global attention, showed a sketch of Microsoft Word on a blackboard, which he was using to teach the pupils.

Dr Deborah Rose, the President of Friends of Yamoransa, and Daniel Rose, Founder of Helping Africa Foundation, initiated and coordinated the funding for the project to enhance the teaching and learning of ICT.

The project is being managed by IMPLEMENTERS, a project management non-profit firm, with its technology partners; TECHAiDE, who have over 10 years experience in technology integration and development projects.