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Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama, Member of Parliament (MP) for Yendi in the Northern Region has made a donation of food items to the Yendi Senior High School.

The donation was in response to an emergency request and an appeal made by the Headmaster of the School, Chief A. M. Hussein to the Member of Parliament to salvage the school from its current food crisis.

The items include 10 Big Gallons of Cooking Oil, 10 Big Cartons of Tin Tomatoes, Makerel and an amount of GHC5,000 for the purchase of some Bags of Rice.

Presenting the items, Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama said the government was putting in measures to ensure that the delivery of food to the Senior High Schools was very regular.

He said the responsibility bestowed on him as an MP was to initiate developmental projects and ensure the good welfare of his constituents which student of the Yendi SHS was among.

"I have made several personal donations to the Yendi SHS including 15 Sewing machines to school Vocational Departments, 50 bags of cement and GHC5,000 for the renovation of the school Mosques".

Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama revealed that education was a top priority on his agenda and that the request was not a worry to him.

He said his office was initiating the Alhaji Aliu Mahama Presidential Library project, an ultra-modern ICT library project to be built in the Yendi SHS and named after his late father, former Vice President of Ghana.

"I am again making a personal pledge of GHC10, 000 to the best student of this school who will pass the yet-to-be-written WACCE Examination to the University".

The Headmaster of the School, Chief Husein said the donation was a big relief to the school.

He said Yendi was lucky to have an MP who 'talks and do' and that his promises to the school have never failed.
Chief Hussein thanked Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama for the gesture and express the hope that government will deliver the food items to the various schools.

A student name "withheld" revealed that for two months students have been taking porridge without sugar adding the school normally served over 100 suspans but has now been reduced to 70 suspans because of the food crisis.

The Yendi Senior High School has a student population of 3,455 57 per cent of female and 43 per cent male.