TREASURERS TOUR TO AKCLF PROJECTS IN MANKESSIM - SEPTEMBER 2016
Our Treasurer Baisiwa Sackey Forson on a recent visit to our computer labs project schools in Mankessim. She met with the local committee, headteachers and students. She also had lunch meetings.
Our Treasurer Baisiwa Sackey Forson on a recent visit to our computer labs project schools in Mankessim. She met with the local committee, headteachers and students. She also had lunch meetings.
Report on Trip to Mankesim
I had to make a trip to Ghana this past June. Ghana is my native country and as the Akan belief goes, since my umbilical cord is buried there, this trip filled me with excitement yet the purpose of my trip was a sad one - the one year anniversary of my mother's passing away. I was also filled with excitement because I was going to see firsthand how the good and generous donations of Akonua Kwama was helping the youth and students in Ghana.
I left Accra, the capital of Ghana with the local secretary for Akonua Kwama - AK for short - Ms. Margaret Pobee, our local representative. We arrived in Mankesim shortly after 9:00am and in time for a well deserved Ghanaian breakfast. Margaret and I were joined by Abraham Baiden AK's Assistant local representative.
Akonua Kwama had made donations of computers including printers to three schools in the Mankesim area of the Central Region in Ghana. The schools are: Makesim Secondary Technical School, St. Andrews School and Obama College. Our first stop was at the Obama College, then on to Mankesim SecTech and finally to St. Andrews College. At each of the Institutions we were met by the Principals as well as the Computer Science teachers. We were treated like royalty. The local reps and I were shown around the schools, looked into the Computer Labs where some of the students who were in the Labs demonstrated to us what they had learnt. The donated computers were in good working order and being used. Students as well as staff members we met expressed their gratitude for our kind gesture and in some cases asked for more help from our group.
I saw what an impact our donations have made and will continue to make. The work is vast and the need great! At Obama College for example it was clear that the school could use more help not only in the computer science department, but in other fields as well. In visiting the Art Studio, the lack of a pottery wheel or kiln was painfully evident so was the need for suitable classroom furniture and teaching tools.
We paid a visit to the land slated for the building of the Library. Facing west, the Secondary Technical School was to the right and St. Andrews was to the left - a good location that students and the general populace could access. It is a good site with lush vegetation.
I had the opportunity of speaking with one of our scholarship recipients and met with another. Her warm embrace and her shy gratitude filled me with joy. She said she owed her career as a nurse to Akonua Kwama and that she would forever be grateful. These sentiments were expressed by the students of all three colleges. I was grateful too and proud of being a member of Akonua Kwama Calgary.
I had to make a trip to Ghana this past June. Ghana is my native country and as the Akan belief goes, since my umbilical cord is buried there, this trip filled me with excitement yet the purpose of my trip was a sad one - the one year anniversary of my mother's passing away. I was also filled with excitement because I was going to see firsthand how the good and generous donations of Akonua Kwama was helping the youth and students in Ghana.
I left Accra, the capital of Ghana with the local secretary for Akonua Kwama - AK for short - Ms. Margaret Pobee, our local representative. We arrived in Mankesim shortly after 9:00am and in time for a well deserved Ghanaian breakfast. Margaret and I were joined by Abraham Baiden AK's Assistant local representative.
Akonua Kwama had made donations of computers including printers to three schools in the Mankesim area of the Central Region in Ghana. The schools are: Makesim Secondary Technical School, St. Andrews School and Obama College. Our first stop was at the Obama College, then on to Mankesim SecTech and finally to St. Andrews College. At each of the Institutions we were met by the Principals as well as the Computer Science teachers. We were treated like royalty. The local reps and I were shown around the schools, looked into the Computer Labs where some of the students who were in the Labs demonstrated to us what they had learnt. The donated computers were in good working order and being used. Students as well as staff members we met expressed their gratitude for our kind gesture and in some cases asked for more help from our group.
I saw what an impact our donations have made and will continue to make. The work is vast and the need great! At Obama College for example it was clear that the school could use more help not only in the computer science department, but in other fields as well. In visiting the Art Studio, the lack of a pottery wheel or kiln was painfully evident so was the need for suitable classroom furniture and teaching tools.
We paid a visit to the land slated for the building of the Library. Facing west, the Secondary Technical School was to the right and St. Andrews was to the left - a good location that students and the general populace could access. It is a good site with lush vegetation.
I had the opportunity of speaking with one of our scholarship recipients and met with another. Her warm embrace and her shy gratitude filled me with joy. She said she owed her career as a nurse to Akonua Kwama and that she would forever be grateful. These sentiments were expressed by the students of all three colleges. I was grateful too and proud of being a member of Akonua Kwama Calgary.
ST ANDREWS HIGH SCHOOL
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MANKESSIM SENIOR SEC TECHNICAL SCHOOL
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OBAMA COLLEGE
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