Rapper Lil Jon Builds Classroom Block In Ghana

American rapper, producer and DJ, Lil Jon has commissioned a classroom block in Abomayaw. The 3-unit block is in a rural community in the Asuogyaman district in the Eastern Region.

This new classroom block has paved a way for a conducive learning environment for the children in the community. This is because the children previously used to study under trees. The condition of the former classroom unit forced many parents from sending their children to school.

While commissioning the fully furnished classroom block, the rapper, Lil Jon, accompanied by his wife, Nicole Smith and Son Nathan Smith explained that he funded the project through Pencils of Promise, an NGO. He said the building was in Memory and Honour of his late Mother, Carrie M. Smith whose birthday falls in October.

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He later spoke to Starr News where he said, “this is the first Project we’ve done together of this kind and it is amazing to see the community come out to support and the appreciation they are showing for us building the school and I just feel like I’m lost for words of how amazing it feels to give the community something like this school. Kindergarten kids at their age they keep up so much stuff so if you can provide appropriate environment for education it can make learning very easy for them and I’m glad I can help facilitate that for these kids looking at where they came from, open basically sheds outside, you can imagine the heat and the obstruction and now they have a well building if it rains.”

The Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, supported 20% of the Project out of the MPs Common Fund with the supply of some building materials. He used the opportunity to urge parents in the community to take advantage of the project to enroll their children who are out of school.

The children in Abomayaw community were elated by the construction of the facility. They thrilled the guests with dramatic display of culture which forced Lil Jon and his team to join the children on the dance floor.

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The community, later presented valuable traditional cloths and beads to the Smith Family in appreciation to their kind gesture.