[ 2015-01-28 ]

Kids who defied black-out to do homework, receive NGO assistance
An NGO has been moved to donate a set of solar
lamps to three school children who defied a
black-out yesterday to do their homework outdoors
- on the stairs of SG-SSB bank's Faanofa Street
branch in Accra.

Executive Secretary of "Light A Million Lives",
Mel Kwesi Davis told Joy News Michaela Anderson,
that after reading the story on myjoyonline.com
Tuesday morning, he felt moved by the
determination of the kids to study.

He believes that, it is the society's
responsibility to help children achieve whatever
they set out to do.

The children are currently in school and will be
given the solar lamps after the close of classes.

The hard staircase of the SG-SSB Bank on the
Faanofa Street in Kokomlemle, adjacent Joy FM, is
the new desk and two bulbs outside is their new
light. - See more at:
http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2015/January-27th/children-forced-to-study-at-odd-places-as-power-crisis-worsens.php#sthash.XILn9asz.dpuf

The front premises of SG-SSB Bank on the Faanofa
Street in Kokomlemle, adjacent Joy FM, became the
new desk and two bulbs outside the new light of
three kids, one as young as nine years.


With notebooks sprawled on the floor, they buried
their heads in academic work, ignoring the noise
from the cluster of generators a few metres away.
With the donation, the children will now be able
to study at night, knowing that while Government
works to end a power crisis, Light A Million Lives
has worked to give them the chance to finish their
homework more comfortably using solar-powered
lamps.

Source - Joy News

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