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Rural Education for Empowerment Programme (REEP), a
non-governmental organization, has donated 15 bicycles to 15 pupils in the
Kumbungu District to facilitate their commuting to school.
The beneficiaries are from 10 communities, including
Dalun, Nawuni, and Dalun-Kukuo, Kanfiehiyili.
This brings to 62, the number of pupils, who have
received bicycles from REEP since 2012 to enable them to get to school on time.
Mr Abukari Abdul-Fatawu, the Director of REEP, who
presented the bicycles to the pupils at Dalun, said the donation formed part of
a supplementary project being undertaken by REEP with support from Kavli Trust,
a Norwegian company, to reduce the challenges pupils went through to access
education in rural areas.
Mr Abdul-Fatawu, who is also the Progressive People’s
Party’s Parliamentary Nominee for the Kumbungu Constituency, said the
beneficiary pupils were selected after they were observed to be travelling long
distances to school making them get to school late and tired.
He said the pupils also undertook household chores,
which made them to report late to school.
Ms Andani Sumaya, a pupil from Kumbungu D/A Junior
High School, a beneficiary, who spoke on behalf of the others, said they lived
in villages far away from their schools so the bicycles would be of great help
to them.
Written by Albert Futukpor, GNA
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