The Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng has announced the government’s plan to extend the Smart School initiative to basic schools.
According to him, the Smart Schools project is not only limited to Senior High Schools (SHS), and the Ministry plans to launch a new initiative that focuses on STEM classrooms.
Speaking on the Pulse on Thursday, April 4, Mr Kwarteng dismissed claims by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama that the launch of the Smart School project by the government was to solicit for votes in the upcoming general elections.
He cited a newly-built kindergarten in Kwabenya by the government, stating that the school is equipped with smart facilities even though the kids are not eligible for voting.
Mr Kwarteng urged the public to consider the long-term impact of government policies, rather than rushing to judge them based on political affiliation.
“We need to have a strong and clear balance and try to distinguish the politics of the day from very sensitive national issues,” he said.
Mr Kwarteng stated that the NDC must understand the changing trends in education in the global dynamics.
“We are not training students just to read and write alone. We are not training students to memorize and chew and pour. We are training students who are assertive, who are critical thinkers, who are problem-solvers and who at the end of the day, the kind of education that they will have will have an impact on the socioeconomic transformation.”
The Ministry of Education PRO emphasised that the success of a government initiative does not necessarily translate into votes for the governing party.
He further cited the digitalization of the port, noting that while the initiative has been largely successful, it does not mean that everyone who works at the port will vote for the NPP.
Similarly, he said that the widespread adoption of the Ghana Card does not guarantee that all Ghanaians will vote for the NPP.
“So, we need to elevate the conversation. We need to benchmark the conversation in a way that is very holistic and not necessarily play politics with everything.”Source: Emmanuella Sarfo-Ntow
The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has, today, April 3, 2024, released a total of Twenty Thousand, Two Hundred and Eighty-Nine (20,289) Personal Identification Number (PIN) Codes for the enrolment of newly-trained Nurses and Midwives from all accredited Universities and Nursing Training Colleges in the country to begin the
process of their mandatory one-year national service for the 2024/25 service year.
All prospective national service personnel are hereby requested to visit the Scheme’s website www.nss.gov.gh to access their PIN Codes using their respective School Index Number and
Date of Birth.
Hon.Osei Assibey Antwi, Executive Director,NSS
Prospective personnel should visit any ADB Bank branch nationwide and pay a registration fee of GHC 40.00. Alternatively, they have the option to make a payment of GH¢41.00 via MTN
MoMo.
Enrolment starts today, April 3, 2024 and ends on Friday, April 19, 2024.
Management urges all prospective national service personnel to complete the registration within the stipulated period.
Thank you.
SIGNED
ARMSTRONG ESAAH
DIRECTOR, CORPORATE AFFAIRS, NSS
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency,Mr. George Akom has set up a fresh school for one of the communities in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of the Ashanti region.
The school which would start from the Kindergarten level was set up in a community called Pantanjor which has been a typical farming community with a population of about 400 people.
The community which does not have any school, being a public or private one to serve the growing number of children of school going age has been of the traditional communities in the district. Some children who were of age and could walk to the nearby communities would have to walk by a distance of 8 kilometres before they get access to a school.
This has made it impossible for the younger ones to join the mainstream education.
The situation has become a demotivating factor to school going children due to the difficulty they have go to through before getting access to education.
The Parliamentary Candidate, Mr. George Akom saw that as educational poverty and had to come out with an intervention to provide access to education for the children. He considered the situation as dangerous for the district which would have a ripple effect to the country at large.
As part of measures to solve the problem, he single handedly provided some basic logistics that could set up a fresh school for the community.
He presented blackboards, writing slates and chalks to serve as the foundation to start a school in the community. He also hired three teachers who would be teaching literacy, numeracy, civil education and other subjects at the kindergarten stage. The three teachers would be paid a monthly stipend by the Parliamentary Candidate since the teachers are to teach as volunteers.
In a community engagement with the Chief his Elders, Opinion Leaders and the entire Community, Mr. Akom stressed the need to educate the young ones to serve as the foundation for the socio- economic development of the district and Ghana at large. He indicated, that he had been a beneficiary of education that was why he always had passion to use education as a means to empower individuals for economic transformation
Mr. Akom intimated, that his vision for the Constituency was to see to it that each person goes through at least the basic education which could yield a positive results for every household. He further opined that although, the district was dominated by farmers, it did not mean that they could not be educated or their children could not be educated.
He said, ” It does not mean that if you are a farmer, you cannot be educated, or if you are educated you cannot be a farmer”. He emphasized, that he would use education to transform Sekyere Afram Plains District.
In his acceptance speech, the Chief of the Community, popularly known as Hallelujah, was dumbfounded by the timely intervention from Mr. George Akom to set up the school which was his daily nightmare. He said, that he was overwhelmed by such a gesture to the community which he never dreamt to have come from an individual.
Amidst cheers from a gathered crowd, the Chief emphatically indicated, that he saw Mr. Akom as a visionary leader how could transform Sekyere Afram Plains District to better the lives of the people and even the unborn generation.
The Chief out of heart gave the name of the school as “Baakam Akom Primary School ” which should be maintained and kept on record, even if any government takes over in the future.
The entire Community was happy to see a new school being set up for their children. The first batch of the school took turns to receive their writing slates as their parents cheered them up. Mr. Akom again donated two footballs to the school as means to entertain the children.
He appealed to the community to take the school seriously as it was to serve as a foundation for the future of the children.
He further made a passionate appeal to individuals, groups and philanthropists to support the school in a little way to achieve the purpose of its establishment, especially getting a permanent classroom for the school.
In a related development, the Parliamentary Candidate has started a Vacation Classes for Senior High School Students who are on vacation in the district to keep them active in their studies and to revise their topics.
Many have described Mr. Akom as someone who has been passionate about education and his contribution to his district as phenomenal.
Mr. George Akom is a renowned educationist who has rich experience in teaching and school adminstration.
He recently won the Parliamentary Primaries in his Constituency and many had expressed their confidence in him to become a Member of Parliament for his Constituents due to his desire to bring positive transformation in the Constituency.
Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum shows a sample of the tablet on News File.
The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced that the first batch of 450,000 free student tablets fully funded through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) will be distributed next week.
According to him, the distribution of tablets has been categorized into three phases, with 450,000 to be distributed to 32 schools to ensure the effective distribution of a total of 1.3 million tablets.
President Akufo-Addo announced on March 25 the distribution of 1.3 million tablets to public Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students.
Dr.Osei Yaw Adutwum
According to him, this initiative, under the Smart School Project is part of the government’s measures to ensure that all sectors of the country are digitised.
Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, March 30, the Education Minister said “The 450,000 is a little less than 30 %, the deployment is such that it is in three phases. The first phase which is hitting the regions and schools in the next coming week, is going to 32 schools in the 16 regions.
He said a system has been created to monitor the effective distribution of the tablets.
“Once it gets to the school, there is a dashboard that informs us the tablets are here. The whole idea is to ensure that you will do a phased approach to deployment and don’t get the system overwhelmed.”
“Once we get them to the 32 schools, then within a week or two thereafter the rest which is phase two also starts moving to the schools, so it’s a phased deployment” he noted.
He said the student mate one tablet comes with a keyboard as a complement that can make it function as a laptop or solely as a tablet.
“There’s also a power bank in it, and in case the power goes out, there’s a solar panel that allows you to charge it using solar in the case of this device. So, that is in response to the issue of erratic power supply at certain times.
The Minister explained that this is part of attempts in the future to gradually phase out textbooks by infusing them into the tablet.
According to him, ICT Coordinators in the schools have offered training to teachers and will continue to train the schools receiving the tablets on their effective usage. Dr Adutwum clarified that the unit price for each tablet is $250, and not GHS250.
The first 450,000 tablets are to cost 112 million cedis, whereas the entire 1.3 million will amount to 337 million Ghana cedis.
Misplaced priority or not?
On the matter of whether it was prudent for the government to spend huge amounts on free tablet distribution when the Free SHS policy was facing other pressing challenges, the Bosomtwe MP explained that the logistical challenges of the Free SHS programme are separate from budgetary constraints, clarifying that funds allocated for this tablet project under the government’s digitalization agenda cannot be diverted to address feeding challenges faced by students under the policy.
“The interesting thing about Free SHS is that you can have logistical challenges and that’s not a budget issue, so we have 1.4 million children miles away that we are feeding a day, you can have challenges where food may not have reached a certain location on time.
“The idea is very simple; there are some people who will say use that in providing food for them, but no, there is a budget. There is a difference between a budget allocation and a cash flow allocation, so even if I want to, the law does not allow me to tell GETFUND that I need your money to buy food instead of the tablets you have allocated funds for in your funding formula, so there is a difference between a cash flow logistical issue and a budget issue.
How to deal with faulty tablets in schools
When the host of News File, Sampson Lardi Ayenini asked about the possible malfunctioning, breakdown or mishandling of the tablets by the students, the sector minister revealed that schools with a population exceeding one thousand will have dedicated repair centres on-site to address any issues promptly.
He emphasized that while gadget abuse is common when students understand that their academic success depends on the tablet, they are more diligent in using it, leading to increased carefulness.
“I will give you an example of what I did in one of my schools in the US. One interesting thing that happened when I deployed laptops at the time, we were dreading that the students would lose their laptops. We had insurance on it. It turned out in the end that after three years when we evaluated the deployment of laptops in my school in the US, 100 per cent of the students’ laptops were intact. It was rather the teachers who lost their laptops.
“So you see, sometimes we underestimate the care that students give to the things that matter to them. When they know how much this matters to them they are not going to just destroy it. When they know that their homework is not going to be done if I do not take good care of this and you train them well and somebody is there to fix it for them, then there is insurance on it.
“Things work in some very unique ways to amaze you” he added.
At a time when the government has launched the Ghana Smart School Project to distribute 1.3 million tablets to public Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students, teacher unions have raised red flags over the government’s failure to deliver on its promise under the 1 Teacher 1 Laptop project.
Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express on Monday to justify why public school teachers have been on strike since last week Wednesday, President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, Rev. Isaac Owusu said over 100,000 public school teachers have yet to receive the laptops they have been deducted for since 2021.
Teachers on strike Rev. Isaac Owusu, who was speaking in response to the condemnation of the ongoing strike action of teachers in public by public schools by the CEO of the Fairs Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), Ben Arthur, on the same programme, retorted, “Engineer [Fair Wages CEO] has been attacking us at the least opportunity he gets since Wednesday when we declared the strike.
“Evans, when it comes to the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, the unions have raised five solid issues, and each of the issues is very important and dear to the teacher we’re representing. Regarding the issue concerning the laptop, the contract says that within 12 calendar months; that is from January 2021 to December 2021, the supplier should have finished the distribution and we are in 2024. More than 100,000 teachers have not received the laptop, and what is the engineer talking about?” he fumed.
As of December 2021, the Ghana Education Service (GES) said it has distributed about 80% of the 62,000 laptops to teachers in Senior High Schools under phase one of the project.
But President Akufo-Addo, who spoke at the launch of the Ghana Smart Schools Project to provide smart tablets for SHS students, said that the Ministry of Education had already distributed 200,000 laptops to teachers in pre-tertiary institutions nationwide.
On March 20, the three teacher unions namely, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH) declared a strike due to unsatisfactory conditions of service.
According to the unions, the government had failed to renew its collective agreement, among other concerns, following its expiration in 2023.
They argued that since all efforts to get the government to the negotiation table have proven futile, laying down their tools was their last resort.
Teachers disregarded strike procedure The FWSC CEO said the teacher unions had disregarded the processes for declaring a strike and had also failed to respect an order by the National Labour Commission for them to call off their strike. He also lambasted them for failing to show up for a meeting called by the FWSC and its mother agency, the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations.
“There are procedures, there are provisions as to what must happen before you can really embark on a strike. You failed to notify the employer, Fair Wages was not in the know, and what was statutory of you to notify the National Labour Commission was also not done, and then all of a sudden we’re ambushed.”
Teachers strike to end only after But the GNAT President told the host, Evans Mensah, that teachers will not return to the classroom until all their demands are met, no matter the attacks on them, referring to the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission CEO’s remarks on the show about their strike.
“The collective agreement,before the 2020 one that we signed, we were having 2009 collective agreement and we used it from 2009 to the year 2020. I want Engineer [FWSC CEO] to understand that, yes, you’re under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, but you’re not the employer of the teacher. The law says that if we want to embark on industrial action we should notify the employer. Engineer, are you the Director-General for GES? Evans, we wrote two separate letters on the 29th of February and in those letters, the NLC was duly notified.”
“The teachers of today are not the teachers of yesterday. The teachers of today are demanding results from leadership, and that’s what we are doing. We don’t have any ill motives and nobody is behind us,” he noted, in response to Mr Ben Arthur’s query to know what their true motivation for the strike is.
He indicated that they’re meeting the National Labour Commission on Tuesday, March 26, on the same matters.Source: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie
The NDC Minority in Parliament, once again, is compelled to expose President Akufo-Addo and Vice-President Bawumia for trying to deceive Ghanaians, that they have fulfilled a campaign promise to provide tablets to ALL Ghanaian students.
Clearly, they have failed, because they have only provided tablets to less than a quarter of the population of Ghanaian students. This is obviously a cheap attempt to hoodwink unsuspecting Ghanaians into voting for Bawumia in the general elections, this year.
It is important to state, that the NDC is not against the provision of tablets to students to enhance their learning experience. In the NDC’s 2020 Peoples’ manifesto, on page 70, under ‘7.2: Providing Globally Competitive And Quality Education,’ it is stated in 7.2.3(k) that the NDC will; “Provide students and teachers with free tablets loaded with relevant content to facilitate teaching and learning.”
The failed Akufo-Addo/Bawumia-led NPP in its 2020 manifesto on page 57, under Education (promise123): Improve ICT facilities and curriculum on ICT, notes that “Curriculum approved and rolled out,” stating further that “Discussions are ongoing for distribution of tablets to JHS and SHS students.”
Note, that per data from the Ghana Education Service presented to Parliament during the 2024 budget process, the total number of students in our public Senior High School (SHS) was given as 1,331,219 (1.3 million), while the total number of students in public Junior High Schools (JHS) stood at 1,448,896 (1.4 million). This brings the total number of students in our Senior and Junior High Schools to 2,780,115. What the NPP manifesto promised, was tablets for ALL students; which means tablets for 2,780,115 students in Ghana.
After seven long years (and still counting) of failing to fulfill this promise, and now with only nine months to go to general elections, the failed Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia-led government has, through GETFUND, procured only 450,000 tablets for a total of 2,780,115 students. It is worth noting, that no provision has been made either in the 2024 budget, or the recently passed 2024 GETFUND formula to procure additional tablets.
This means, that a whopping 2,330,115 students in both SHS and JHS will not receive the tablets. With the 450,000 tablets being given to only SHS students, it means the remaining 881,219 SHS students will not have some; and no JHS student will have one.
Again, it is worth noting that the Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia government has failed to tell Parliament and the people of Ghana the unit cost of the 450,000 tablets procured through GETFUND. This is clearly a government that has no regard for transparency and accountability. Even worse, it has no policy to guide the method of distribution and use of the tablets.
Given, that government has not procured enough tablets to ensure that at least all SHS students get access to these tablets, what criteria will be used to decide and select which students in which schools are to receive these tablets?
Now that the government has failed to produce enough tablets to enable every SHS and JHS student get a tablet as promised, should government decide to pilot the one student one laptop programme, how will the schools be selected?
At this juncture, we are cautioning the government not to select schools based on partisan political considerations, where schools in districts with NPP MPs are selected and districts with non-NPP MPs left out.
We call on Ghanaians to hold the Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia-led NPP government accountable for failing to fulfil the promise of providing ALL students in SHS and JHS with tablets, despite receiving the most revenue in the history of Ghana. With the quantum of revenue this government has been lucky to have at its disposal, from 2017 to present, it’s such a shame that it could only procure 450,000 tablets when we have 1,331,219 (1.3 million) students in SHS and 1,448,896 (1.4 million) in JHS.
Obviously, the government has once again failed to fulfill its promise to the people. Ghanaians, as usual, can be trusted to see through the razzmatazz attached to the launching of the programme and recognize it as an election campaign gimmick.
Signed
Dr. Clement Apaak
MP, Builsa South and Deputy Ranking Member, Education Committee of Parliament
President Akufo-Addo has announced the distribution of 1.3 million tablets to public Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students.
According to him, this initiative is part of the government’s measures to ensure that all sectors of the country are digitised.
Speaking at the launch of Smart School Smart School Project on March 25, he said “In furtherance of our digitalisation agenda in the education sector, government is proceeding with plans to distribute 1.3 million educational tablets to students in Senior High Schools. That is one student per tablet under the government Smart Schools Project. The tablets are fitted with digital contents to aid research, teaching and learning.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
“At the tertiary level, the government plans to provide at discounted price, tablets and laptops to students and lecturers to facilitate academic work.”
He explained that the initiative resulted from lessons the government had learned from Covid-19. He stated that the pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in various sectors of the country, including the educational sector. One of the notable gaps highlighted was the need for digitalisation across all sectors, particularly in education.
President Akufo-Addo also announced that the Ministry of Education had already distributed 200,000 laptops to teachers in pre-tertiary institutions nationwide.
Additionally, these teachers have undergone training on how to use and utilise applications embedded in the computers to facilitate the preparation of lesson notes and research.
Again, he said although the free SHS policy has been successful, the next phase of the policy would be propelled by digitalisation.
He stressed that this would allow a seamless offline teaching and learning experience.
“The enhanced Free SHSs will be environmentally friendly, boost academic performance fitted with interactive displays, interactive learning and increase productivity which is what has given birth to the Ghana Smart School Project.
He explained that the project seeks to deepen the application of IT in teaching and learning at the secondary cycle level. Its goal is to enhance the performance of students, better preparing them for higher education and competitive careers.
Meanwhile, government intends to build 100 smart schools across the country. The first 30 of these schools are slated to be completed this year, with the remaining 70 are expected to be finished within the next two years.
The smart school infrastructure will be located in all 16 regions of the country.
Additionally, President Akufo-Addo mentioned that the smart school buildings will be fitted with solar panels, enabling them to operate independently of the national electricity grid.
These schools will also feature digitised infrastructure aimed at advancing teaching and learning. The physical infrastructure will take into account the unique climatic conditions of each region, creating a conducive atmosphere for learning.
“The Ghana Smart School Project is in alignment with the government’s promise to enhance the free Senior High School programme leveraging on technological advancement to enable students to compete globally,” he said.
Again, he said “I am confident that we can build a future where every Ghanaian child has access to a world-class education and unlocks full potential. Let us embrace this opportunity to transform our school into hubs of innovation and excellence. Let us work tirelessly to ensure that no child is left behind in the digital age.”Source: Connielove Mawutornyo Dzodzegbe
An eleven-member Ugandan delegation on Monday visited Ghana’s Education Ministry to understudy the nation’s education reforms.
The delegation who would be in the country for five days was led by Madam Kabahena Flavia Rwabuhoro, a Member of Parliament (MP) and Chairperson for Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development, as the team comprised of eight MP’s and three staff.
The team will as part of the mission visit various agencies under the Education Ministry to engage the leadership of the agencies to learn more of what is done there and ask the necessary questions on best practices.
Welcome note
In his welcome address, the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, said the visit by the delegation would go a long way to deepen the relationship between the two countries
He took time to show pictures and videos of new and ongoing projects and explain the current state of education reforms in the country which has led to the nation becoming the first port of call for many countries in Africa who keep coming to understudy what is going in the education sector
Dr Adutwum, said, “We have not reached where we want to go but we have moved forward and hope that we will become a model on the African continent soon”.
He lauded the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his commitment and interest in transforming the fortunes of the country through education
The Education Minister and other Directors at the Ministry spent time answering several questions from the Ugandan team who wanted to understand the various policies being implemented in the country as part of the education reforms.
The leader of the Ugandan delegation, Madam Kabahena Flavia Rwabuhoro, lauded Ghana for its role in the development of the African continent citing the state of the nation’s education which has become a model for other African countries.
She also eulogized the country for the development of its democracy making it a model when it comes to the development of democracy in the sub-region
Best education in the sub-region
The delegation pledged to liaise with the leadership of Ghana’s Education Ministry to reform its education system since Ghana had one of the best education systems in the sub-region.
The delegation has since visited various agencies under the Ministry to engage management and staff on their programmes and policies so they could adopt any aspect of the policies.
Chief Director of the Education Ministry, Mrs Mamle Andrews, recounted the effort being made by the Ministry to come out with the best policies, programmes and initiatives that stand the chance of turning around the fortunes of the nation through education.
She pledged the preparedness of the staff and management of the Ministry towards the attainment of the best outcomes over the various interventions being executed currently by the Ministry.
Background
The past three years has seen many African Countries visiting the Education Ministry to engage the leadership to understudy the ongoing reforms in the sector.
This follows the introduction of numerous education interventions brought to the fore by the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, who has a barrage of experience in education policy and development.
Apart from the visitation by various nations in the African continent, the nation’s education reforms started by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government has attracted the attention of the global platform leading to the presentation of an award to the country at the recent World Government Summit held in Dubai.
The award was presented to the country for one of its policies called the “Ghana Education Outcomes Project” (GEOP) for integrating 17,340 Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP) learners into mainstream schools and enhancing learning gains through innovative interventions in the first year.
The Ministry of Education has assured parents and other stakeholders in the educational sector that the ministry has put in place pragmatic measures to ensure a regular supply of food to all senior high schools (SHSs), as well as technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in the country.
The Spokesperson for the Education Ministry, Mr Kwasi Kwarteng, who disclosed this information to the media on Friday,15th March 2024, gave the assurance following recent concerns raised by some Ghanaians on food supply to schools.
The concerns compelled Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Education Minister, to task teams from the Education Ministry, Ghana Education Service and the Free Senior High School Secretariat to tour the entire country to ascertain the true state of food supply in schools across the country.
Dr.Osei Yaw Adutwum,Education Minister
He explained that, after the tour, the teams confirmed that currently all schools have adequate stocks of food in their storage facilities.
Mr Kwarteng stated that there is also a prompt and up-to-date payment of funds allocated for the purchase of perishable food items to all schools.
He said feedback from the headmasters of the various schools and students visited by the teams indicated overall satisfaction with the quality and quantity of food being served.
He, however, stated that if there was any particular school that had a peculiar challenge in connection with the supply of food from the zones, that would be treated with urgency as a special case.
The spokesperson assured parents and all other stakeholders in the educational sector to have confidence in the ministry’s swift and hands-on response to the issue since the government continues to prioritise the welfare of students, as well as other efforts being made to contribute to the overall enhancement of food security in SHSs.
He noted that the sector Minister is personally interested in the smooth running of all schools at all levels of education in the country and would continue to adopt prudent measures to ensure the creation of a conducive environment in all schools for effective teaching and learning to take place.
Background
Following reports and speculations about irregular distribution of food items to SHSs/TVET institutions across the country recently, the sector Minister, Dr Osei Yaw Adutwum, tasked teams to all regions in the country to ascertain the true state of affairs in connection with food supply in schools.
Their visits to the schools, which were aimed at obtaining first-hand information on food distribution and feeding practices at selected SHSs, was a proactive approach and a testament to the ministry’s commitment to ensuring the well-being of students in the educational system.
The Former First Lady, Lordina Dramani Mahama,has supported Jema Senior High School in the Bono East Region by donating five(5) sets of jerseys, footballs and ten thousand Ghana Cedis(Ghc10,000) to the school’s football team.
The donation was made in response to a request from the school. Felicia Adjei, the Kintampo South parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress, presented the items and cash on behalf of Mrs.Lordina Mahama.
She explained that the donation highlights the former First Lady’s dedication to sports development and helping students engage in various sporting activities
Mrs.Mahama, who is from Jema, had previously installed a new pump for the small-town water system through the Lordina Foundation in January to restore water supply to the Jema SHS and the community.
