Akpo Memorial JHS gets ICT lab
The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sun Baohong, has inaugurated an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) laboratory for the Philip Akpo Memorial Junior High School in Ho.
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The GH¢80,000 laboratory sponspored by China is equipped with 25 computers, 25 tables and chairs, switches, racks, 8 KiloVolts Ampere(KVA) Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS), projector screen, software and application, routers and two air conditioners.
In an inaugural address, Madam Baohong said cases of China-Ghana friendly co-operation which started in the era of the first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, were countless and that the relationship between the two countries was based on affection between the two people.
China-Africa projects
She said the ICT laboratory was the first project in the implementation of the “China-Africa People-to-People Friendly Action” in Ghana, adding that under the friendly plan, 77 projects were delivered in 49 African countries within a year.
These included small and micro size livelihood projects involving various fields such as medical care and health, culture and education, agricultural production and that the projects had become a symbol of true friendship between China and Africa for improving livelihood of the African people.
Madam Baohong stated that the construction of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho by the Chinese was the first large scale aid project in the Volta Region, adding that the sisterhood relationship between China’s Ningxia Autonomous Region and the Volta Region was the first in China’s history.
She added that China had equally contributed to energy development in the country with the Bui Hydropower Station and the Sunon Asogli Power Plant as some of the investments.
In an address, the Volta Regional Minister, Ms Helen Adjoa Ntoso, said the ICT laboratory was a testimony of the good relationship existing between the two countries.
She said the project was a fulfilment of the government’s target for every child to operate and use the computer in order to modernise education in the country.
Importance of ICT
The Agbogbomefia of Asogli, Togbe Afede XIV, asked the school management to fashion out a plan to allow the use of the computers by past pupils and the general public during weekends.
He acknowledged the use of ICT in the current age and said it was vital because no development could take place without education, adding that as a traditional ruler who had recognised the essence of education for development, he had constructed the school building and the building was also furnished with assistance from the British High Commission.
Togbe Afede said the assistance from the Chinese friends was a further growth to the great friendship that already existed to enable the school and the community at large to be abreast of the fast changing technological world.
In a welcome address, the Headmistress of the school, Madam Lydia Sedzro, said the school, which had an enrolment of 155, promised to use the facility judiciously to enable the school to achieve the ambition of becoming a noble institution in the Ho Municipality.
The Chinese also presented 10 footballs and 30 schoolbags to the school and later toured the construction site of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS).