Medical Director supports Hatsukope Basic School with classroom block
Hatsukope (VR), Jan. 30, GNA-Dr Kwasi Asare-Bediako, Medical Director of private-owned King’s Hands Hospital, has supported Hatsukope No.2 Basic School in the Ketu South Municipality with a two-unit classroom block with an office and a store.
The two classrooms have tables and chairs for the pupils to sit on and ceiling fans to improve on ventilation while the office has sitting room chairs, a television set, and a refrigerator to enhance the comfort of teachers.
At the colourful ceremony to commission and hand over the new building for use were activities including cultural displays and poetry recitals in English and Ewe with a special one titled, Sick Child which summarised the purpose of the gathering.
The poem compared the school to a sick child who was left to its fate until an angelic divine doctor (Dr Asare-Bediako) heard its voice for diagnosis, treatment, and discharge resulting in a “once sick and dying child but now healthy- the new classroom.”
Head teacher of the school, Ms Ernestine Numanyo in an address, thanked Dr Asare-Bediako for his kind gesture and to the former head teacher of the school, Mr Prosper Mensah, and the entire staff for seeking help for the school.
She said the Hatsukope Basic School established in 1961 with the No.2 carved out in 2015 due to increasing population, still needed more classroom blocks to enhance teaching and learning saying, “looking behind us is a six-unit classroom block yet to be completed and I appeal for support for its completion.”
Of challenges itemised into pupils profiles (learners mostly from a low-income family, living on their own, house helps) and weakness of the school (absenteeism, lateness, lack of textbooks, poor learning environment, low pass rate), she called for all to get involved to give quality education to the pupils to develop their potentials to guarantee their future.
Mr Michael Yao Tsuiatorfe, Ketu South Municipal Education Director in a speech read on his behalf by Mr A.A. Kordzo Adzokpa charged the leadership of the school to ensure the safety of the new building noting, such projects were hard to come by.
The Education Director called on other philanthropists and groups to emulate Dr Asare-Bediako and support education delivery in the Municipality by providing schools with their needs like classroom furniture and blocks because government alone could not do all.
Torgbui Adzonugaga Amenya Fiti V, Paramount Chief of Aflao Traditional Area and his sub-chiefs at the ceremony, installed the Medical Director who promised continuous support to the school, as Torgbui Agbesi I in honour of his deed.
Mr Prosper Mensah, now the head teacher of Chicago Basic School, Denu last year, approached Dr Asare-Bediako to help his primary four and five pupils get a classroom to study in, and in a few months, the request was granted.
“This is good. Torgbui Agbesi did well. I’m from here and this new classroom block that he built for our children, we thank him for it. I’ll ask the children not to sleep in the cozy classroom because that’s my only fear.
They should learn,” a middle-aged woman, Wonorvi Amuzu said.
