Bayerebon No. 3 (Ash), Nov. 24, GNA – The Langtree
School in England (United Kingdom) is to provide a
block of three classrooms for the Bayerebon Number
Three District Assembly Junior Secondary School (JSS)
in the Atwima-Mponua District of Ashanti.
The assistance forms part of a programme under which
the Langtree School, which has adopted the
community, will send teachers from the UK to assist
in teaching.
Miss Karen Bridges, a product of the Langtree
School, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency at
Bayerebon on Thursday, said an initial amount of 51
million cedis had been released for the commencement
of the project in January next year.
She said the school in a bid to assist a deprived
community in Africa, was directed to Bayerebon
through interactions with some officials of the
Kuapa Kokoo Limited, a Licensed Cocoa Buying Company
on the Internet.
Miss Bridges said she then abandoned teaching in the
UK and travelled to the country at her own expense
and that during her four-month stay in the
community, she would be teaching in the school to
have a taste of rural teaching to enrich her
experience as a professional teacher.
Mr Paul Yaw Owusu, head teacher, expressed gratitude
to the Langtree School for such assistance and said
it was the first of its kind in the community.
He urged teachers, parents, pupils and other
stakeholders in education to give their maximum
support by providing communal labour when the
project begins.
Mr Owusu commended the Kuapa Kokoo Limited, which
had earlier provided the primary school with a
six-unit classroom block.
GNA
