tiGO partners Raising Readers to develop next generation of young readers

Tigo Ghana’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Shelter for Education, has partnered with Raising Readers Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to encourage children to read.

At an official ceremony in Accra to launch the initiative at the weekend, the Chief Executive Officer of tiGO, Madam Roshi Motman, was optimistic that together with Raising Readers Foundation, tiGO’s Shelter for Education team would be able scale up and have a wider impact on children. 

“Reading is priceless. It opens up doors beyond our imagination. It opens our eyes and minds to the world and it helps us improve on vocabulary and diction. Language is the foundation of learning and development and reading helps us get the language right,” she said. 

She gave an assurance that tiGO will continue to support Ghana’s socio-economic development through various initiatives under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She listed tiGO’s contribution to education to include infrastructural development for several basic schools in rural areas and the partnerships with various organisations including Street Library Ghana and Reach for Change, just to mention a few.

Talking about the vision of Raising Readers Ghana, the Founder, Nana Aba Anamoah, said the goal was to create a mobile literacy outreach initiative focused on recreational reading beyond the classroom. 

“We have started off by creating reading clubs in various communities. In partnership with tiGO and other donors, we hope to expand in future and make use of the various community libraries dotted all over Ghana that are not currently in use,” she said.

The Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, who was the guest speaker at the launch, said “A nation without readers is a nation without a future.”

“From reading we learn the lessons of history. We learn the solutions to national and personal problems. We learn from the experiences of others and learn to appreciate that other people may have different perspectives from us but it doesn’t make them wrong. From reading we learn life skills, we acquire knowledge and we learn wisdom. Reading is critical to our survival as people and as a nation,” she emphasised.

About Raising Readers

Raising Readers is an NGO based in Accra. It was founded with a passion to improve the lives of children and young adults by providing inspiring book collections and engaging literacy programmes for schools and communities across the country.

About tiGO Ghana

tiGO started operations in Ghana in 1992 as the first Mobile Network Operator. It is part of Millicom International Cellular (MIC) which provides mobile, voice, data, cable television, broadband and financial services to over 50 million customers in 13 emerging markets in Africa and Latin America.

 

Tigo Ghana’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Shelter for Education, has partnered with Raising Readers Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to encourage children to read.

At an official ceremony in Accra to launch the initiative at the weekend, the Chief Executive Officer of tiGO, Madam Roshi Motman, was optimistic that together with Raising Readers Foundation, tiGO’s Shelter for Education team would be able scale up and have a wider impact on children. 

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