The rehabilitated school. INSET: Unijay (left) receiving a citation from the Ahinsan MA JHS officials
A FORMER head porter, known in local parlance as ‘Kayayie’, has
rehabilitated the Ahinsan MA Junior High School (JHS) in the Asokwa
Municipality in the Ashanti Region.
Against all odds, Mrs. Janet Abobigu has been able to rise in life
to become a famous seamstress and an entrepreneur.
She is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Amaloboba
Foundation, and has offered employment to a good number of the youth.
Mrs. Abobigu, popularly known as Unijay, said she had her basic
education at the Ahinsan MA JHS and so she decided to return and support her
alma mater.
According to her, the school was in a deplorable state and needed
help and so she expended a whopping GH¢450,000 to rehabilitate it within a
short time.
She disclosed that two three-unit classroom blocks and an
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre were rehabilitated by her.
Unijay said the structures were re-roofed, ceilings were fixed and
construction works were done on the buildings. She presented new school uniforms to all the
380 students in the school and also donated 80 dual desks.
She said people usually support their senior secondary schools but
the basic schools in the country seem to have been neglected. “I am, therefore,
planning to launch ‘Back To Your Basic’ to create awareness for people to go
back and support their basic schools soon,” she added.
She promised to offer similar support to other schools at Ahinsan
whenever she has the means to do so.
The Member of Parliament for Asokwa, Patricia Appiagyei, and the MCE
for Asokwa, Akwannusah Gyimah, lauded Unijay for her great effort.
The Headmaster of the school, Seth Kofi Kyei, said “the school was
established in 1959 and this is the major rehabilitation works in the school.”
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
