New Horizon School needs GH¢56,000

By Bernard Yaw ASHIADEY

New Horizon Special School, a school that provides basic education and vocational training to people with intellectual disabilities, needs GH¢56,000 to fully furnish an eight-unit classroom block recently commissioned by Kairo International, operators of La Palm Royal Casino.

“We now have speech- and physio-therapists on full-time basis, but we lack the furniture and equipment to make them work efficiently; furnishing and equipping the facility will cost about GH¢56,000,” said the Principal, Vanessa Adu-Akorsah.

She said this at the unveiling of a plaque for the GH¢161,000 new eight-unit classroom block at Cantonments, Accra.

The Institute also provides education to people suffering from autism, cerebral palsy and the visually or hearing impaired.

Mrs. Adu-Akorsah noted that with the new classroom block, they now can admit more students and are also able to run the normal Ghana Education Service curricula.

The new classroom block houses the speech- and physio-therapy, sensory room and two rooms for cerebral palsy. The classrooms, according to the Principal, are very comfortable and totally disability-friendly.

Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Kairo International, Juliet Quarcoo, said the gesture was in fulfillment of the company’s corporate social responsibility.

“In fulfillment of our corporate social responsibility, we decided to help the institute by putting up this structure to enhance teaching and learning, and also to enable the institute admit more students with intellectually disability,” she said.

The New Horizon School is a purpose-built establishment started 40 years ago by a mother who has a daughter with a disability, and supported by friends from the American Women Association and two mothers.

The institute currently has about 156 children and adult pupils, from age four to 50.

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