Well-wishers donate 5 computers to Ghanaian teacher who taught students on a blackboard

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The IT teacher from Ghana who won worldwide praise for teaching students how to use Microsoft Word on a blackboard has finally been given some computers for his classroom.

Owura Kwadwo – better known as Richard Appiah Akoto – received a laptop for students to use and at least five new desktop computers from individual donors and organisations around the world.

And as part of Microsoft’s promise to offer him free training, Akoto has also been flown to Singapore to attend the annual Microsoft Educators Exchange. https://ameyawdebrah.com/ghana-partake-international-junior-science-olympiad/

The tech giant had pledged to equip him with a device from a business partner as well as access to the Microsoft Certified Educator Program (MCE) for professional development, CNN reported.

A Saudi benefactor at Leeds University sent him a laptop ‘as a small gift to him and his students’ after reading about Mr Akoto’s equipment shortage.

‘I always understand from the teachings of Islam that useful knowledge is crucial for the benefit of the self and humanity,’ PhD statistics student Amirah Alharthi said.

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An Accra-based computer training school also donated five desktop computers to the school, along with books and a personal laptop for Mr Akoto, who expressed his thanks this week on Facebook. ‘God bless you all,’ he said.

Because there were no computers at the middle school where he works he used coloured chalk painstakingly to draw a version of the computer screen onto the blackboard.

In mid-February, he shared a Facebook post showing photos of his ‘needs must’ method of teaching. ]]>