Kumasi Poly lecturer donates to schools
A lecturer at the Kumasi Polytechnic, Mr Agyabeng Owusu, has presented two brand new flat-screen computers valued at GH¢1,100.00 to the Akokoaso District Assembly (DA) Junior High School (JHS) at Akokoaso in the Sekyere East District in the Ashanti Region.
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Due to the non-availability of computers to aid teaching and learning of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), students have not been able to write the ICT paper during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) since the subject was added to the JHS curriculum.
In the 2013/2014 academic year, 24 BECE candidates of the school expressed their determination to sit for the ICT paper but because they had to study ICT without computers, their dreams were shattered.
Improving education
At a presentation ceremony at the school, Mr Agyabeng said it had always been his dream to improve upon the education of schoolchildren.
He said as a lecturer, he had been raised in a village which was more remote than Akokoaso in the same Sekyere East District and that the JHS pupils at Akokoaso could not use deprivation and remoteness as an excuse not to broaden the frontiers of their education.
He also asked them to be determined and purposeful, adding that the school authorities should make sure the computers were properly maintained and used for the intended purpose.
The Sekyere East District Director of Education, Nana Otuo Acheampong, who received the computers on behalf of the school, asked both teachers and the pupils to make effective use of the computers to enhance their performance in ICT in the BECE.
He handed over the computers to the head teacher of the school, Mr Blankson Ankomah, who expressed gratitude to Mr Agyabeng for supporting the school.
Early on, Mr Agyabeng presented two of such computers to the Senchi DA JHS, Nkwakwanua, Brofoyedru and Okaikrom.
He also presented one computer each to schools at Putuom, Attakrom, Odurokrom and Seniagya while a packet of roofing iron sheets was also presented to the Odurokrom DA JHS to support infrastructural development. The items presented are valued at GH¢60,500.00