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Nadowli Assembly donates uniforms, 10 laptops to Sankana Model JHS

The Nadowli-Kaleo District Assembly on 20th February donated 50 set of school uniforms and 10 laptops to the first Girls Model Junior High School in Sankana of the Nadowli-Kaleo District in the Upper West region.

Date Created : 2/22/2018 2:07:25 AM : Story Author : Muniru Ibrahim/Ghanadistricts.com

Making the presentation on behalf of the Assembly, Hon. Katherine T. Lankono, the District Chief Executive stressed on the need to educate the girl child, “An African proverb says - If we educate a boy, we educate one person. If we educate a girl, we educate a family – and a whole nation”. By sending a girl to school, she is far more likely to ensure that her children also receive an education. As many claim, investing in a girl’s education is investing in a nation’’.

Hon Katherine said, Child marriage – in some cases involving girls as young as 6 or 8 – almost always results in the end of a girl’s schooling.

The result is illiterate or barely literate young mothers without adequate tools to build healthy, educated families. On average, for every year a girl stays in school past fifth grade, her marriage is delayed a year. Educated girls typically marry later, when they are better able to bear and care for their children.

She said the educational dream by the president Nana Akufu Addo, is to provide equal educational opportunities for the girl child in the country, and it is on that course that the government introduced the free senior high school policy, to help the poor also educate, she therefore, called on the traditional authorities to look beyond giving out their girls for marriage to put them in the class room.

Somewhere last year the District Chief Executive inspected progress of the first phase of the construction of deluxe classroom block as part of the government of Ghana Urban Policy and Planning ministry of local government and rural development programme: "Integrated Rural Community Access Project with funding from the Government of Japan (JGCVF)".

The head teacher, Christiana Kuunyaygna who received the presentation for the 35 first batch student admitted in November 2017, commended the DCE for the presentation and pledged to use the uniforms and the laptops to the benefit of the students.

The school is expected to start boarding house somewhere next year.