Popular US preacher, Apostle Wayne T. Jackson and his wife, Dr. Beverly Jackson, have donated a fully-equipped computer laboratory and a library to the deprived local Abasua District Assembly Junior High School in the Ashanti region.
The couple hope to improve teaching and learning of Information Communication Technology in the school with the ICT lab, stocked with 60 computers and stable internet connectivity.
The school also received a Junior High School block, modern toilet facility and a mechanized water system from the philanthropists.
It was all joy as pupils of the Abasua D/A Junior High School performed choreography to welcome high grade computers to the school.
Until the donation of the ICT lab, students in the farming community lived an imaginary life in the study of ICT, as teachers taught computing lessons without access to computers and other inputs.
Popular US preacher, Apostle Wayne T. Jackson, and his wife, Dr. Beverly Jackson, offered the opportunity to change the status of the school.
“I am so glad that God has freed us as a people to come back to our homeland to be a blessing to our brothers and sisters here in Ghana.
The last time we were here, we dedicated the first junior high school where our children can have education where they can be in touch with the world around us.” Delighted Apostle Wayne T. Jackson said.
The couple have also donated a JHS block, toilet and water facilities, as well as a modern palace to the local traditional authority.
Apostle Jackson is also promising to build teachers quarters to accommodate teachers who commute from far to teach in the school.
“We promised that we would come back and we will build a library and a computer center. I am proud to say that the library in the name of my father who was a great man; his birthday was yesterday and we are here to dedicate Horace Jackson Library and Media Center. We brought with us, and we supplied books, we brought about 60 computers and we have wifi. We have wifi internet service where the children can be in touch with the world around them. To God be the glory. We thank God for the teachers and we are looking to build in this area, facilities for the teachers to have a lodging place where they can educate the students.”
Overlord of the Nsuta Traditional area, Nana Asamoah Gyamfi Sekyere, says access to the ICT lab and library has put children in the area on the same level where they can compete with their counterparts elsewhere.
“This facility will provide our youth with access to modern technology, resources and knowledge to compete in increasingly digital world.”
Kwabena Konadu Yiadom is a Computing Teacher for the local Junior High School.
He says the pupils are already anxious for their first practical ICT class, where they will have the opportunity to touch computers for the first time.
“They [pupils] came for inspection but they’ve never tried their hands on it [computer] yet. And they are happy with these computers because they are coming to know things more practical aside the theory they already know.”
Meanwhile, all is set for the construction of a teachers’ quarter project to be funded by the Jackson Impact Foundation.
Apostle Wayne T. Jackson is the Founder and President of Impact Network, the only all African-American founded and operated national Christian television network in the US.
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