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Prempeh College 1988/90 Year Group helps school with water facility
The President of the year group, Mr Kwame Attrams, cutting the tape to inaugurate the water project

Prempeh College 1988/90 Year Group helps school with water facility

The 1988/90 Year Group of Prempeh College in Kumasi has helped solve a six-year-old water shortage problem in the school with the provision of a mechanised borehole. 

The old boys also renovated and relaid fresh pipes from the borehole site. They also reactivated old lines to the school's main reservoir from where the water would be distributed to all parts of the school to ease the pressure on students who had to walk long distances in search of potable water.

A TV documentary of the crisis telecast recently showed unhygienic toilets and bathrooms in the school resulting in some students not having regular baths leading to some students falling sick. 

 Per the tradition of the school, each year group is to decide on one social intervention as its contribution to the school, where members are referred to as 'seniors. '

The project

Subsequently, the year group was to decide between upgrading the ICT lab and restoring potable water to the school.

After a tour of the facilities in the school, the 1988/90- year group settled on the water project, which was started in 2013.

Various social media platforms were created to mobilise GH ¢31,000 and with the support of Ashcell, an agent of telecommunications giants, MTN, in the Ashanti Region, the project was made possible and jointly inaugurated  by the President of the year group, Mr Kwame Attrams, and the headmaster of the school, Samuel Fordjour, last Saturday. 

President’s school

The inauguration was greeted with excitement by the students, who said their studies had been affected by the absence of water.

Mr Fordjour, the headmaster of the school, which is fondly referred to as 'the president's school', because it was attended by former President John Agyekum Kufuor, appealed to the year group to do a lot more to cushion students since the government alone could not shoulder all the responsibilities. 

Currently, the school, jointly owned by the Presbyterian, and Methodist churches, had had almost all its dormitories without mosquito nets thereby exposing the students to bad weather and mosquitoes bites increasing the rate of malaria infections in the school.

Mr Fordjour said the increase in student population from 800 to almost 2,000 called for urgent increase in logistical assistance. 

Mr Attrams promised to keep the relationship strong and help the school when necessary.

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