ROBERT GBARI GARIBA, GHANA’S GLOBAL TEACHER PRIZE NOMINEE 2019, SAYS THANK YOU.

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By Robert Gbari Gariba

Dubai – 25 March, 2019

REMARKS BY ROBERT GBARI GARIBA, GHANA TEACHER PRIZE WINNER FOR 2018 ON THE OCCASION OF THE GLOBAL TEACHER PRIZE 2019 AWARDS CEREMONY HELD IN DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ON 24 MARCH, 2019.

Your Excellences, Heads of Government, directors of the Varkey Foundation, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deeply humbled by the great honour that you have accorded me as Global Teacher Prize Nominee for 2019. Thank you all very much for being so gracious.


It has been very exciting to be here in this great megapolis, Dubai. I have met many gifted, devoted and wonderful members of our great teaching profession from all over the world; talking and sharing ideas with them has been inspirational.

Growing up in Sabuli in the Jirapa district of the Upper West Region of Ghana, which is a largely rural area, it was a privilege to go to school.

And on reaching school, teachers became our role models particularly because they dressed properly and taught us to read and write. Teaching is about SHARING, sharing knowledge.

So if today, knowledge abounds on how to treat special needs children, it is important to share that knowledge with the whole world.

It is my ambition to share the knowledge we have of the peculiar circumstances of special needs children in our part of the world through the establishment of GHANA FOUNDATION FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN.

I hope to use the foundation as the platform to bring together parents, teachers, Non-Governmental Organisations and people all over the world, to research and share the latest knowledge on special needs education.

Our goal will be to ensure equal educational opportunities for children with special needs. We hope that you will support us with expertise and material resources.

I wish to thank all of you present here for your kindness and support. My deepest gratitude also goes to the Ministry of Education Ghana and my pupils at Richard Akwei Memorial School, Accra, Ghana.


Thank you.

Congratulations to you, Rev. Bro. Peter Tabichi, Franciscan missionary, and Global Teacher Prize Winner 2019. Rev. Bro. Tabichi teaches at Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani village in Kenya’s Rift Valley. “Saint Francis of Assissi – Pray for us.”
The Fatherhood of God……the brotherhood of man….. Lift girl’s education and Africa higher…..In the name of Alhah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful…… Alhamdulillaah.

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