Tiko Sub-Division

JCI Tiko creek members pose with SG Nkwen Tamo P. at
Tiko council with gifts for schools1

JCI promotes education among the less privileged
By Sarah Nkongho Ojong in Tiko
Junior chambers international, JCI Tiko Creek Renaissance chapter, working in partnership with the Tiko council, has donated school items to some 5 schools in the sub division to help promote grass root education. The donation took place on Monday, June 2, 2014.
    The initiative which has been in the pipeline since last year targeted a blend of public and private institutions within the sub division where the lack of some basic school necessities was identified. Among the schools chosen were government school,  Likomba, Presbyterian school, St Mary Catholic school, and C.B.C school all in Tiko, which  received items like drinking buckets, jars, books, pens and pencils from the impact-creating organization which has as objective to identify problems in the community and resolve them.
    According to the JCI Tiko creek renaissance president, Ebaneck Brian Binda, the choice of items was intended to ensure that all the pupils benefit from the gift. Even though, there were also special gifts to some of the best pupils in all institutions.

    Present at GS Likomba where the donation was launched was the representative of the inspector of basic education Tiko, Angafuh James Ogah also accompanied by the Tiko mayor who was represented by the Secretary General, Nkwen-Tamo Pamela, authorities of the schools alongside members of JCI Tiko creek.
    Appreciating the gesture, the basic education representative said the items which are mostly on hygiene and sanitation will go a long way to ensure the good health of the children and assist in the fight against water borne diseases like dysentery and cholera.
    Speaking on behalf of the council, Nkwen-Tamo Pamela emphasized on the role the council has to play in partnering with external bodies to help in the development of the municipality as she pointed out the responsibility of the council to assist in the promotion of education.
    One of the school beneficiaries in the person of the head mistress of St Mary Catholic School Tiko, Nchadze Sylvie, appreciated the gifts as wonderful on the part of JCI to think of not just the pupil but their safety in hygienically, as she assured them that the items will be well catered for. 
    Talking to The Median, the president Ebaneck Brian highlighted on the next project of the organization which will be the distribution of bedspreads and pillow cases to some selected hospitals in the sub division.
    Looking at some of the difficulties faced by most schools in the area, the representative of the inspector of basic education, James Ogah hammered on the aspect of vandalism in the area and its negative influence it has on the pupil who tend to copy and associate with the acts of vandalism. In GS Likomba for instance, the locks, doors and zinc sheets on the school are constantly taken away and in GS Ndongo, observations showcased a majority of pupil n the vicinity who can hardly even afford shoes and uniforms to wear to school not to talk of books and other school needs.
    From the above, much needs to be done not only by the government but by civil society organizations, individuals, private organs to help ameliorate the educational conditions of some institutions within the country for achievement of millennium goals and an emerging Cameroon.