By Evans Worlanyo Ameamu
Anloga (V/R), Nov. 27, GNA – The 1981-year group Alumni of the Zion College (Zico), have supported their alma-mater in the Anloga District of the Volta Region with some items to improve teaching and learning in the school.
The support, worth thousands of Ghana cedis include the renovation of the school’s computer lab, 40 pieces of Opt Plex 7040 Dell table-top computers with their corresponding number of mouses and monitors, power cables, keyboards, 15 tables and 30 dinning benches, among others.
Mr Thomas Clarkson Adadey, the leader of the 1981 alumni group, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the objective was to improve teaching and learning in the school for quality education.
“When we came here last year to commission our renovated Charity classroom block, we identified many other challenges facing our alma-mater and we deemed it necessary to do the little we can, to lift the standard,” he stated.
He said that the funding of the project was from benevolent contributions by 1981 past students both home and abroad and commended Mr Christian Agbezudor, the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Cell Construction Limited and Mr Gemeli Tameklo, the leader of old students’ abroad, for their exceptional supports and donations.
Mr Adadey told the GNA that the world was fast changing and moving towards a digital and technological era and all school going children must be taught to learn how to operate computers to adjust to the new system of life.
“We know government cannot do everything within its capacity for all schools at a time, so we decided to come as a group and help alleviate some of the plight of the school,” and appealed to all other old students to come on board with the little they could mobilise to ensure the sustainability of the project”.
He said the Association had planned other projects such as the rehabilitation, expansion and electrification of the dining Hall, wiring of some dormitories, classrooms among others, to ensure the smooth running of academic activities.
Madam Nutifafa Abla Kwawukumey, the Headmistress of the school, who received the items on behalf of the staff and students, thanked the donors for their timely intervention that would go a long way to improve teaching and learning.
She pledged that the items would be used for their intended purposes and appealed to other old students, individuals, groups, companies and the government, to help solve other challenges such as insufficient beds and classrooms for students, as well as the expansion of the school’s Assembly Hall among others.
Mr Dominik Yao Dzanado, the Director of Education at Anloga, commended the 1981-year group for their support and urged other students elsewhere to emulate same, to help curb the numerous challenges that confronted many other schools in Ghana.
GNA