A US based Ghanaian retired teacher, Samuel Quansah Quarcoo, has distributed educational materials and other essential items valued at US$30,000 to his alma mater, O’Reilly Senior High School, and two other basic public schools in Accra.
This is the first of series of charity events Mr. Quarcoo, is planning for the year.
At the O’Reilly SHS, he replaced their dilapidated flush toilets or W/C with new ones. They also received a brand new cardboard for the headteacher’s office.
The other beneficiary schools are Bishop Girls’ Basic School off the High Street, Accra and Emmaus Basic School at Awoshie, Accra.
At Bishop Girls, Mr. Quarcoo sponsored the concrete works, painting and furnishing of tables and chairs of the school canteen and also presented to them brand new foldable canopies with covering tent.
Both Bishop Girls and Emmaus schools also received a desktop computer each.
All the three schools received office essentials such as laser copies, correction pens, teachers’ lesson notebooks, writing pads, files, white board markers, attendance register, liquid soap, nose masks, textbooks based on the new NaCCA syllabus, skipping ropes etc.
The school children again received school bags, mathematical sets, exercise books, pens and pencils.
Other received items included toothbrush and toothpaste, erasers, water bottles, sanitary pads for the girls, and provided shoes to all the school children and their teachers in an intervention similar to the UNICEF and Clarks’s shoe share initiative.
Mr. Quarcoo said the initiative was borne out of his genuine love for charity and eagerness to alleviate the plights of the less privileged.
He added that he wanted to inculcate into the children the act of kindness so that whenever they are blessed with enough, they could also emulate the act of giving to support the underprivileged.
He expressed gratitude to Jared Drescher, Bary Segal Foundation, Mrs. Irma Poretsky, Ms. Naomi Meyer, 80 Woodmont Club members and other well wishers who have been contributing both in cash and in kind towards his philanthropic initiatives.
Headmistress of O’Reilly SHS, Mrs. Rejoice Akua Akorlor, recounted how Mr. Quarcoo’s previous donations had benefited the school and relieved them from a lot of recurring expenditures.
She said for instance, the school was renting a public address system anytime they were doing exams or had to do oral presentations, saying “we had to spend between GH¢450 – GH¢500 anytime we went to rent the public address system. But ever since we received one from Mr. Quarcoo, that expenditure has ceased.”
She appealed to other old students of the school to emulate the gesture of Mr. Quarcoo and come to the aid of their alma mater.
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