Donating of book and other E-Learning materials to the community school and the community library was also done by the Regional Senior Manager, Mr Simon Amoh during the MTNers visit to the Apam in the Central Region on the 13th of June 2017. The 21 Days Y’ello Care is a staff volunteering activity spanning from 1st June 2017 to 21st June 2017 and it fuelled the donation of story books and other E-learning materials to the schools and the community library in Apam in the Central Region and it also helped kick-start the formation of reading clubs in the school to create a platform where readers will read story books to challenge themselves and this will help promote the habit of reading in the community.

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