Students from the Savannah and Bono East Regions who attend the Kadelso English and Arabic Primary and Junior High Schools in the Kintampo Municipality have received 1,200 educational supplies valued at thousands of cedis from Baitulmaal, an American Islamic charity organization with donors from Texas, Chicago, and Pakistan, among others.

The act is intended to support the government’s efforts to combat school dropout in Islamic communities.The Muslim Girl-Child’s enrollment in school and retention are also among the goals of the donation.
The following items will be distributed to 200 beneficiaries:200 pairs of shoes, 200 uniforms, and 200 school bagsThe remaining ones are;200 exercise books, two hundred erasers, and two hundred pens.

Sheikh Mohammed Maher, the program coordinator for Baitulmaal USA, stated in an interview with JoyNews that the goal of the donation, among other things, is to encourage students to continue their education without being physically abused.According to him, the organization has devised a number of strategies for enhancing the community through education and has urged parents and local authorities to play their respective roles.

According to him, “Baitulmaal USA loves Africa and is aimed at promoting Islamic education on the continent that is why Kadelso school was jointly built with funds by our Islamic charity donors from WEFA International Humanitarian Relief Organization and Aldiaa society Ghana”, he indicated.

He adds that, one of the objectives for the Baitulamaal is to see people happy and , “you remember that during the Holy Month of Ramadan , Edul fitr and Edul adha celebrations we came here and distributed food items and cows in order to make our community school children and parents happy”, Sheikh Mohammed Maher indicated.

The Coordinator later assured the community that, “we will sustain the back to school projects in Kadelso community and other parts of Ghana”, Mr. Maher indicated.

While commenting Government for the introduction of the School Feeding Program, the Coordinator for Northern Ghana Stakeholder for America-based NGO Projects, Baba Iddrisu Neidow has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to as a matter of priority, include more English and Arabic Schools in the program.

The School Feeding Program is not here in Kadelso and I believe when introduced here, it will motivate more parents to bring their children to school especially, the girl-child and further influence pupils’ interest to stay in school and learn”, he stated.

He said that the presented materials were what students needed to stay in school.
In fact, the education system in Ghana lacks this kind of program.As a result, when schools resume, students aren’t ready to return, but when they learn that a program like this is coming, students are willing to return.
Because more students will attend school as a result of our project, enrollment will rise as well.Mr. Baba Iddrisu Neidow stated, “Their parents cannot force them, but because of these materials, they will be sufficiently motivated to stay in school.”
“It will also increase the Muslims population in the educational sector because many of our people are not into school and the English and Arabic schools have been abandoned by all if I may say so,” Mr. Baba Iddrisu Neidow insisted. He added that the program will further increase the number of Muslims attending school.