Stratcomm ‘Read and Write’ programme ends

The Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Communications Africa Limited (Stratcomm), Ms Esther Cobbah, has urged parents and teachers to encourage pupils to cultivate the habit of reading and writing to enable them to develop strong communication skills.
She said the ability of pupils to gain mastery in reading and writing was to help them to excel in their educational endeavours.
Ms Cobbah was speaking at the closing ceremony of the read and write programme organised by Stratcomm for the Kanda Cluster of Schools.
The programme was held to contribute to the reading, writing and communication skills of Junior High School (JHS) students.
The four-week programme, dubbed “Read better, write better and communicate better”, formed part of the year’s activities to commemorate Stratcomm Africa’s 15th anniversary.
The programme, which fell under the company’s corporate social responsibility programme, was part of the organisation’s efforts to raise the bar in communications, both in Ghana and on the African continent.
She said the ability to read and write was relevant to the world of academics and the working world, which the students would enter after school.
Ms Cobbah said reading and writing were important for fostering understanding through information sharing and stressed the need for Ghanaians to possess a literate populace as this would help the country develop and ease the task of disseminating official information related to national policies.
She assured the schoolchildren and parents that the first phase of the exercise would be evaluated and the feedback would be used to design and implement a second phase.
The Circuit Supervisor, Ms Victoria Dwamena, appealed for a library and advised the students to make good use of what they had learnt.
Some of the students who participated in the reading and writing exercise shared their experiences, affirming the impact it had on them and their eagerness for another session of the programme.
Prizes and certificates were awarded to each school for participating in the programme.