By
Stanley Awalime, GNA
Adidome (VR), Jan.
21, GNA – Reverend Johnson Avuletey, the Deputy Volta Regional Minister has
inaugurated a girl’s model Junior High School at Adidome in the Central Tongu
District of the Volta Region.
The school, funded
by the Central Tongu District Assembly with student population of 70, has three
classrooms, a staff common room, headmistress’ office and washrooms.
Mr. Avuletey
underscored the importance of girl’s education, stressing that women were key
in the development of the country and that the New Patriotic Party’s agenda of
promoting girl’s education in the country needed to be applauded.
He said the
establishment of a girl’s school would encourage more girls to enroll and help
reduce teenage pregnancy in the District.
Mr Avuletey said it
was the role of teachers to employ creative ways to make education appealing to
girls and asked them not to relent in their duty of impacting knowledge.
“In many situations,
pupils listen more to teachers than their parents and there is the need for
teachers to help shape our girls into good citizens by being good role models,”
he said.
Mr. Thomas Moore
Zonyrah, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Central Tongu, said getting a
girl’s model Junior High School in the District was a dream come true and
appreciated all those who contributed to the success of the project.
He said plans were
in place to build a girls senior high school in the District and also a
university campus so that higher educational needs would be met, adding that,
“this would not be an achievement for the DCE or the New Patriotic Party but an
achievement for the people of Central Tongu so all are to support it.”
Madam Magaret Ezinam
Amu, the Headmistress of the Central Tongu Girls Model Junior High School,
assured that the School would work hard to promote the name of Central Tongu
through its results.
She called on
non-governmental organisations and the Assembly to add more facilities so they
could enroll more girls.
GNA