The District Director of Ghana Education Service in Tolon-Kumbungu, Yakuba Assani, has praised Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), for their immense contribution to the educational development of children in the district. 

“I have been tracking the improvement of Kasuliyili in the BECE results and I have seen that with each passing year, the school children are continuing to do better and better. In 2008, 47 out of 50 Kasuliyili students passed for the first time and 31 students were admitted to high school”, said Yakubu Assani.

During a recent presentation of educational materials, to aproximately 600 school children in 5 community schools, Yakubu Assani stated that, in 2006, out of 37 students, 70 percent passed and Kasuliyili placed 13th overall among schools in the district. In 2007, out of 47 students, 85.1 percent passed and Kasuliyili placed 9th overall.

The Country Director of CCFC Ghana, Mrs. Sanatu Nantogma said that it has become “a yearly affair for CCFC and its partner, Baptist Child Development Program to offer support to schools and school children in the Kasuyili area.  We are doing this because we are committed to promoting education among deprived communities and to meeting the objectives of MDG 2, which seeks to achieve universal primary education for all by 2015”.

Mrs. Sanatu Nantogma stated it should however not be taken for granted that CCFC’s assistance to schools will continue to come. She said that a time will come in the future when this support will cease. The Country Director said that CCFC had identified a gap in education in the areas of Early Childhood Development and Youth Skills Development and was therefore taking steps towards solving the gap in the not too distant future. She urged members of the communities to start putting in place alternatives ways of supporting their children in school long after CCFC’s support had ceased.