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 Some students trying their hands on the computers. Picture: DANIEL KENU
Some students trying their hands on the computers. Picture: DANIEL KENU

Perseus Mining builds ICT centre for Ayanfuri SHS

Perseus Mining Ghana Limited has handed over a GH¢140,000 Information Communications Technology (ICT) laboratory to the Ayanfuri Senior High School, in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region.

Built by the company through its Edikan Trust Fund, the fully furnished laboratory has 30 desktop computers and accessories, a projector, a printer, with appropriate air conditioning system.

It is expected to improve the teaching and learning of ICT in the school and also serve as a basis for the school to seek accreditation from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to run ICT as an elective subject from next academic year.

Community support

Perseus Mining contributes GH¢1 million each year into its Edikan Fund,  set up to provide basic amenities to the communities within its catchment area.

The inauguration of the ICT laboratory comes barely a month after Perseus resettled 1,147 people in the three communities which were within 500 metres radius of the mining site, and was against the mining law.

The General Manager of Perseus Mining, Mr Stephen Ndede, who inaugurated the project at Ayanfuri, said beyond the company’s social responsibility was the hope of the company to help produce some of the country’s best ICT brains from the school.

He said seeing to the needs of the people would go a long way to the lower the tension that had existed between the firm and the communities.

The general manager said plans were afoot to support the school to become one of the best SHS in the country.

Headmaster worried

The acting Headmaster of Ayanfuri SHS, Mr Paul Dankwah, appealed to the mining firm to take over the school by running it to help in the swift payment of the teachers’ salaries.

The school, built three years ago by the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Denkyira West, Mr Benjamin Aryeh, from his share of the MP’s Common Fund, has been struggling lately, following the exit of the MP.

Mr Aryeh, who used to pay teachers salaries and provide other amenities, has since stopped, thereby putting the future of the school in limbo.

The acting headmaster said he had written several times to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to absorb the school.

While waiting for a favourable response from GES, the headmaster appealed to the traditional authorities and the district assembly to take up the payment of teachers salaries as well as help solve the acute water shortage facing the school.

Mr Dankwah also appealed to the community and the government to help improve facilities at the school including dormitories, toilets and bathrooms.

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