Research facilities are woefully poor, as primary and secondary source materials are simply not available. Scientific laboratories are in dire need of modern equipments; available equipments are outdated or have broken down and are useless. Simple reagents and other necessities required for performing scientific experiments are scarce to find. Electricity to power equipments and to see with are not available. Many secondary schools simply have no laboratories whatsoever.
Parallel with the decline in the educational sector of African countries is the almost total official neglect of recreation at the local levels. Just as with the educational sector, funds for the establishment and promotion of recreation activities have equally dried up.
The resources required for reasonable development of cocurricular, extramural, and recreational facilities, programs, and activities in
Parallel with the decline in the educational sector of African countries is the almost total official neglect of recreation at the local levels. Just as with the educational sector, funds for the establishment and promotion of recreation activities have equally dried up.
The resources required for reasonable development of cocurricular, extramural, and recreational facilities, programs, and activities in
schools have drastically fallen to a negligible proportion of what they were twenty years before.Worst of all, excepting for national soccer competitions and occasional staging of traditional pageants like competitive canoeing on local stretches of fairly big rivers and dances by hurriedly gathered troupes to welcome political dignitaries, community level recreation and opportunities for avocational activities have all but fallen out of the purview of governments and only few private organizations care anything about sports and games as they affect the ordinary out-of-school citizen.
Fired by a sense of mission, Spread Corporation began ad hoc activities first by soliciting and acquiring used books and decommissioned computers, accessories and software that were then to be transferred to needy educational institutions in Nigeria and Ghana. The first set of donated 15 boxes of High school books from a lover of Africa was received in 2002 and 20 used/decommissioned computers from the College of Arts of the University of Guelph were received in 2004.
Fired by a sense of mission, Spread Corporation began ad hoc activities first by soliciting and acquiring used books and decommissioned computers, accessories and software that were then to be transferred to needy educational institutions in Nigeria and Ghana. The first set of donated 15 boxes of High school books from a lover of Africa was received in 2002 and 20 used/decommissioned computers from the College of Arts of the University of Guelph were received in 2004.
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The State of Education and Recreation 2
in West Africa
in West Africa
Sustainable Programs for Reducing Educational and Avocational Disadvantages
