Some pictures from the Bolgatanga project which was carried out in Sumbrungu in 2018.
On Thursday, July 6,2023, Biblionef Ghana, presented 8185 books and educational resources to 15 Kindergarten schools in the Adentan Municipality. These items were sponsored by the North Sea Lions and Lions club Skiramere Slochteren in the Netherlands and The Links Incorporated in the United States.
The event was held at the Adenta Victory Presby Church Hall.
The resources consisted of locally published and foreign storybooks, early grade and phonic readers, together with several educational resources, including slates, crayons, jigsaw puzzles, alphabet and number templates, play dough, building blocks, among others.
Additionally, The Links Incorporated provided funding for mobile cupboards for five of the schools.
Mr. Christopher Jolly, founder of Jolly Phonics and Managing Director of Jolly Learning Ltd in the UK, generously donated all the Jolly Phonics materials for the schools.
The Guest of Honour for the occasion was Nana Richard Baffour Awuah (Director, Pre-Tertiary Education, MoE). The event was chaired by Mrs. Ewurabena Ahwoi, a retired educationist and former Director for Girl Child Education, Ghana.
Mrs Patricia Arthur, Executive Director, Biblionef Ghana, Ms Gifty Mussey, Municipal Director of Education, Adenta; Mrs Durowaa Amponsah Mensah, Early Childhood Coordinator, Adenta; Mrs Genevieve Eba-Polley, Executive Director, Ghana Book Trust and officials from the Accra World Book Capital 2023 Committee, were present at the event.
Earlier in March this year, as part of the project, Biblionef Ghana with support from the North Sea Lions Club and Lions club Skiramere Slochteren, held a Four (4)-day capacity-building workshop on Library Management, Reading Promotion and Phonic Training for 30 Kindergarten teachers in the Adentan Municipality.
Workshop on Library Management, Reading Promotion and Phonic Training for 30 Kindergarten teachers
Mrs Wia Huisman-Smeenk, a trained Dutch librarian specialised in reading promotion and information literacy and a long-time collaborator of Biblionef Netherlands was also present at the workshop as a resource person.
Others in attendance were Ms Gifty Mussey, Municipal Director of Education, Adenta; Mrs Durowaa Amponsah Mensah, Early Childhood Coordinator, Adenta, Mr Jonathan Amoako-Baah, Madam Esther Tandoh, the then president of the Accra Lions Club and Mrs Ohui Allotey, the Board Secretary of Biblionef Ghana.
Participants of the workshop with Mrs Patricia Arthur, the Executive Director of Biblionef and Mrs Wia Huisman-Smeenk
Items donated to the schools were sponsored by the North Sea Lions and Lions club Skiramere Slochteren in the Netherlands
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The books, cupboards and educational resources were distributed to the various schools
The Stories for Inclusion project evolved from a partnership between the Niketan Foundation and Biblionef.
Niketan provides education and support to children and young people with disabilities at family, community and school level in Bangladesh, while Biblionef helps underprivileged children worldwide to discover the joy of reading by giving them new, inspiring children’s books.
As part of the project, various activities and interventions made towards creating larger disability and inclusion awareness in basic schools in Ghana. These activities were:
A two-day workshop was held in October 2022 with a total of 18 participants. Participants included principals and teachers from selected schools, local authors, editors and publishers, representatives from the Adenta Municipal Education office and Special Education Department. The workshop sought to promote inclusive behaviour and understanding around disability through children’s books and storytelling, and to encourage teachers to use the storybooks to talk openly to children about disability.
Els Heijnen-Maathuis, a Niketan team member with experience working with inclusivity, trained participants on how to deliver inclusive instruction and encouraged writers, illustrators, and publishers to embrace diversity in their storybooks.
The books used and distributed to various schools for the project were Runa, Sosu's Call, The Lucky one, Mulgheta and Community Through Your Senses.
A Trainers of Trainers workshop was held in January 2023 with a total of 31 teachers from four schools.Also present at all the trainings were the Head of the Special Needs Department of the Municipal Education Office, Mrs Gloria Agbeko and three of her staff, and the Training Officer for the Municipality, Mrs Felicia Azizem.
The teachers were taken through how the books should be used in the classroom with the Activity guides and were educated on terminology that should not be used in class to refer to children with disabilities.
The team visited the schools to interact with children and teachers, and to find out whether the books have impacted them and the overall evaluation of the project.
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Biblionef Ghana donates books in Ghana community schools.
It was such a joy for the children
