Futa is a deprived community in the Tamale Metropolis, with only one school, which has a population of about 100, from primaries 1 to 6.
The school has no library and other facilities to aid in improved learning for the pupils, making their performances poor year – in – year – out.
The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA – Gh), in partnership with Plan Ghana, therefore introduced the SWIDA – Gh WVL Plan – Gh project, to help the pupils with various basic literacy approaches, to improve their performances.
Under this project, SWIDA – Gh is also partnering the Northern Regional Library Authority, which has the mandate of providing books and other basic learning materials to pupils and students for improved learning.
Futa is one of the communities benefitting from this intervention and since inception, many boys and girls in the community have benefited from learning from the engagements had during project visits.
Pupils from the upper primary, M /A Primary School, and the teachers were brought to the Library in Tamale for an educational tour at the library, where they were given some books to send home and read for one month.
These books are supposed to be returned after one month, where the library team will subsequently be visiting the community to change the books for the pupils after every reading.
Supported by Plan International Ghana, the SWIDA – Gh WVL Plan – Gh project is being implemented in 11 school in the Tamale Metropolitan Area, targeting 600 girls from upper primary to Junior High School.
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