St Anthony’s Catholic school gets ICT centre

A modern Information and communication Technology (ICT) Centre aimed at enhancing computer education has been inaugurated at the St Anthony Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High School at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region.   

The ICT centre has been equipped with 18 computers which were donated by the Ejisu/Boston College (USA) Computer Literacy Project, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based at Ejisu, to boost computer education at the school which also.

Speaking at the joint inauguration and handing over ceremony, Mr Kwame Kyeremateng Mensah, Country Director of the Ejisu/Boston College (USA) Computer Literacy Project, said the world had become a global village as a result of computer education and, therefore, there was a need for the schoolchildren to be well equipped with computer knowledge and skills to enable them to compete with the rest of the world.

He said ICT had become one of the major syllabuses in education, and called on parents, philanthropists and friends of education to support and partner with the government to promote computer education in schools in the country.     

He said over the past years, the NGO had trained about 2,850 schoolchildren, teachers and police officers in computer education as part of its mission to promote computer education.

Mr Mensah promised to provide a projector and its accessories to boost modern teaching and learning at the school and called on the teachers to take proper care and maintain the computers to prolong their lifespan.        

Rev. Fr Gregory Amponsah Nkansah, Catholic Parish Priest of Ejisu and the local manager of the St Anthony Roman Catholic Primary and JHS, said the Catholic Church was not only concerned with the spiritual development of its members, but it also gave priority to the promotion of education and human resource development through quality education, discipline and good moral training among the youth in the country.

He said it was only quality education and good moral training among the youth that could move the country forward and called for collaboration among all education stakeholders.

Rev. Fr Nkansah said basic education was fundamental to quality education, and called on parents, teachers, individuals and churches to support the government’s efforts to improve education, especially at the basic level.  


By John K Essel, Ejisu
Daily Graphic/graphic.com.gh/Ghana