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5 best WASSCE candidates to receive scholarships- Adwoa Safo

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has promised to sponsor 5 best performed candidates from the Kwabenya Senior High School who sat for this year’s WASSCE to further their education to tertiary level.

Date Created : 8/27/2019 3:11:44 AM : Story Author : Andrew Tagoe/Ghanadistricts.com

The beneficiary students will be funded through her charity organization, the "Adwoa Safo Foundation."

The MP made this known when she cut sod for construction work to commence on two separate classroom blocks in the area. The projects include a 6-Unit Classroom Block and a 3-Unit Kindergarten School Block, both with ancillary facilities for the Taifa St. Dominic Roman Catholic Basic School.

The project, which is fully funded by Ministry of Education through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), is estimated to cost One Million and Eighty-Five Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety-Three Cedis and Seventeen Pesewas (GHC1, 085,793.17) with both projects expected to be completed in five (5) months.

Speaking at the ceremony, the MP, who is also the Minister of State for Public Procurement and Deputy Majority Leader in Ghana's Parliament, revealed in her address that her soon-to-be launched "Adwoa Safo Foundation" will sponsor the best performing students of the Kwabenya SHS to further their studies in the area.

"I want to take this opportunity to announce that I will offer full scholarships for the best five (5) students from our only Senior High School, the Kwabenya Community SHS to further their education at the Tertiary level.

“The Overall Best will gain a Scholarship to study abroad under the soon to be launched Adwoa Safo Foundation and the other four best students will also gain a full scholarship into any University or Tertiary Institution in Ghana of their choice. Hopefully, with the grace of God, this will be a yearly event to enable our students in our Senior High School, get the best quality education free of charge and become responsible citizens for the municipality and nation at large", she announced.

She noted that her decision to offer the scholarship, along with the various educational projects she is undertaking in the municipality and constituency is in line with her commitment and belief that education is very critical to human and national development.

"Generally speaking, our children are our future leaders. For this reason, we have to invest in them to take up the mantle to improve the country’s economic and social well-being.”

Touching on the project, Hon. Adwoa Safo emphasized on the importance of the provision of infrastructure in the education sector to help provide quality human resources for the nation's development.

She therefore tasked the contractors for the project, Messrs Empire CD Limited and Messrs A-3 Company Limited and the consultant, Edmund Taylor and Associates, to ensure that they produce quality work for the school.

On her part, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Janet Tulasi Mensah, speaking at the ceremony, observed that lack of infrastructure was a major bane to delivering quality and accessible education in the municipality, recounting her experience with overcrowding in the school last year.

She expressed her gratitude to the MP for this project and many others throughout the municipality.

"The provisions of these facilities are part the efforts of our Hon. MP to help the Assembly to address the dire educational infrastructural deficit and other resources needed to enhance the quality of education in the municipality. We are overwhelmed by the support we are receiving from our Hon. MP in this direction and other sectors of our economy", she noted.

Mrs Tulasi Mensah also took the opportunity to inform the public on the impressive performance of the first batch of students of the Kwabenya Community SHS who sat in the 2019 WASSCE.

The Head of Supervision and Monitoring at the Ga East Municipal Education Directorate, Mrs. Genevieve Narh, expressed profound gratitude to the MP and MCE for their continuous support for the education sector and promised to make good use of the facilities.