Akuse Methodist SHS old students support alma mater
The Akuse Methodist Senior High Technical School Old Students Association (AMESTOSA)has presented a 5000-litre polytank to the school at Akuse in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region.
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The donation formed part of efforts to ease the water problem facing the school.
The school, which was established in 1991 with 50 students, has a current population of 1,700 with over 80 per cent of them in the boarding house. The school faces serious water crises due to the large population of the students in the boarding house.
Challenges
The President of AMESTOSA, Dr Clement Kadogbe, said as the population of students increased, accessibility to water was becoming difficult on campus. As a result, some of the students were compelled to sometimes fetch and washed their cloths at the Volta River Authority (VRA) canal at Akuse which had claimed the lives of some of the desperate students.
“We the old students normally become disturbed any time we hear of such deaths. This unfortunate situation compelled us to support the school with the polytank in order to ease your water problem and we hope to do more in future,” Dr. Kadogbe indicated.
Award
The old students also presented a second year student of the school, Ms Favour Kpeli, with an undisclosed amount of money for the payment of her school fees for the third term of this academic year for winning a quiz competition organised by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation for some senior high schools in December last year.
The amount is to serve as a motivation to encourage other students to learn hard and win more academic laurels for the school.
Advice
Members of the AMESTOSA took turns to advice the students on the need to concentrate on their studies because ”this is why your parents and guardians brought you hear and you must convince them that you have not wasted the resources they put into your education”.
Appreciation
The headmaster of the school, Mr. Frank Inkum Eyiah on behalf of staff and students, expressed appreciaton to the old students for their gesture.
He said it took the old students commitment, discipline and hardwork to attain their current status and therefore admonished the students to take the advice from their seniors serious if they want to achieve academic excellence.
Mr. Eyiah howver disclosed that, there were some brilliant but needy students who could not pay their school fees and therefore appealed to the old students to adopt such students to give them hope.