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The Kofi Annan School Foundation to
help government to establish schools
Egyirfa (C/R), Nov. 29, Ghanadot/GNA - The Kofi Annan School
Foundation Board, comprising a group of people both from
Ghana and the Netherlands helping to provide education
facilities to needy communities in Central region, is
collaborating with the government to establish schools in
other parts of the country.
The Foundation Board has already constructed a youth
training centre at Ajumako Afranse in the Central Region.
It has also started construction of a primary school project
at Egyirfa, a farming community in the Mfantseman District
of the Central Region.
Mr Jan Schullar, a retired trade unionist from Holland and
Chairman of the Board said the collaboration would be the
Foundation's contribution to education of the Ghanaian
youth.
"We feel privileged to do so," Mr Schullar said in a speech
read on his behalf at a durbar at Egyirfa near Yamoransa.
The durbar was in honour of a brigade of the Foundation,
which arrived in Ghana from Holland to assist in the
construction of the school block.
Mr Schullar said the project would save children from
walking six kilometres to school.
Nana Abena Takuwah II, a Dutch development queen of the
village was full of praise for Ghanaian women for their hard
work.
Nana Takuwah, whose real name is Reit Schullar, a retired
educationist, said she had set up a micro credit scheme for
the women of the village to promote their businesses.
She commended Nana Araba Takyiwa, queen mother of the
community for her support.
Mr Robert Quainoo-Arthur, District Chief Executive commended
the Foundation for supporting education in the country and
pledged the assembly's cooperation to make its work a
success.
He enumerated a number of interventions the government had
put in place to ensure quality education for children in the
country and urged Ghanaians to ensure that all children of
school-going age were enrolled in school.
Mr Quainoo-Arthur called on Ghanaians to ensure that the
peace the nation was enjoying was not disturbed on the alter
of political or chieftaincy expediency.
Mr Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, an aspiring parliamentary
candidate for the National Democratic Congress for
Mfantseman West, commended the people for placing premium on
education, which was the key to development.
GNA
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