By Evans Worlanyo Ameamu
Kedzi (VR), Nov 6, GNA – Mr Emmanuel Gemegah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Keta Municipal in the Volta Region, has supported Kedzi Technical Institute with furniture to improve teaching and learning.
The items worth thousands of Ghana cedis include 10 long tables, 50 tailoring chairs and 10 ironing tables to various departments to help improve quality education.
Mr Gemegah, in an interview with Ghana News Agency, during the donation at the premises of the school disclosed that the Municipal Assembly was poised to help all schools within the area for better education.
“I was here a few months ago when the roofing of the school building was destroyed by a strong wind. The principal put a lot of challenges before us and these supports are what our budgets in the assembly can cover for now,” he stated.
He further stated that many other levels of education, which include Kindergarten, primary, senior high schools and the tertiary, had benefited from the municipal assembly’s funds in various forms to uplift the standard of teaching and learning for better education in the area.
He also commended Mr Courage Hope Goldberg-Grimm Lekettey, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Keta constituency for supporting and ensuring that most basic and tertiary schools in within the municipality benefited from quality education by providing other basic needs for better future.
Mr Mac-Anthony Korku Akorli, the Principal for Kedzi Technical Institute, who received the items on behalf of students and the staff, expressed gratitude to the donors for the kind gestures to alleviate the numerous challenges the schools faced.
“We have been looking forward for these items for some time now and l hope the these will help us in quality education delivery, l promise we will use them very well to serve the right purposes.”
Mr Mac-Anthony appealed to philanthropists, corporate entities, individuals, group of companies, and the government to help solve other pressing challenges of the school which include inadequate furniture, dormitories, classrooms, teacher’s storerooms, among others.
He said the school, established on March 10, 2007, had a total population of 215 students and 21 teaching and non-teaching staff with over 400 students currently offered administered to increase the enrollment.
He said the school offered courses such as general electrical, carpentry, fashion, and design, catering and hospitality, graphic design and welding and fabrication.
Some students and staff GNA interacted with appealed to the public to solve the challenges of improving and uplifting the school’s status.
GNA