EXCITING...What is exciting is that two of the first batch of the pioneers in our programme have joined our teaching staff on attachment at our computer training centre in accordance with the policy of the Foundation. Like all the other kids in our programme, when they pass the BECE they will en
ter secondary schools of their choice this academic ye
ar on the Foundation’s Kirsten Bosch Scholarship Fund. They themselves had been extraordinarily brilliant throughout the three year programme, and now they have the rare opportunity to share their computer knowledge with their own peer group. What an exciting chance at role–modeling. And both of them happen to have attended the Nsaba Islamic Junior Secondary School. They are Beatrice Dadzie 16 and Barikissu Alhassan is 15. We are proud of them. We wish each of them a triumphant future.
ter secondary schools of their choice this academic ye
ar on the Foundation’s Kirsten Bosch Scholarship Fund. They themselves had been extraordinarily brilliant throughout the three year programme, and now they have the rare opportunity to share their computer knowledge with their own peer group. What an exciting chance at role–modeling. And both of them happen to have attended the Nsaba Islamic Junior Secondary School. They are Beatrice Dadzie 16 and Barikissu Alhassan is 15. We are proud of them. We wish each of them a triumphant future.THE RIGHT TO READ…“Give a book as a birthday gift to a child. Buy a book for your child every month. Reward your child with a book”. These were some of the resounding words echoed, especially by the District Education Director, Mr. Dowouna-Hammond, at the just-ended Agona District Book Week Celebration, which was launched at Agona
Swedru on July 11th, 2006. The aim is to encourage reading habit in the youth of the District. It was the first time eight kids from the Foundation’s Kirsten Reading Club were there to participate. They showed great performance, when they were invited to the Reading Train. These kids, representing perhaps the only Reading Club in the District, exhibited outstanding reading skills that won accolades from the audience—confidence, fluency, articulation and audibility. In the follow-up Reading competition for the District schools, our girl Charity Bossman, was placed fourth. And imagine, they are only JSS One kids.
Swedru on July 11th, 2006. The aim is to encourage reading habit in the youth of the District. It was the first time eight kids from the Foundation’s Kirsten Reading Club were there to participate. They showed great performance, when they were invited to the Reading Train. These kids, representing perhaps the only Reading Club in the District, exhibited outstanding reading skills that won accolades from the audience—confidence, fluency, articulation and audibility. In the follow-up Reading competition for the District schools, our girl Charity Bossman, was placed fourth. And imagine, they are only JSS One kids.
Rev. Mrs. Marion MacKayOur latest volunteer We are happy to introduce our new volunteer in English Language from Canada. She is the very respectable Presbyterian Church Minster Rev. Mrs. Marion Mackay. She is here at Nsaba with her husband, also a Reverend Minister, to provide training at the Nsaba Lay Training Centre, at the request of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Rev. MacKay has freely volunteered to teach at the Foundation’s extra classes in addition to her missionary assignments. We are most grateful for this wonderful opportunity. She is God sent.
Alex and Brigitte Danquah : The two lovebirds met in a bus in Frankfurt when Alex was a student in Germany way back in the 1970s. He is from the Brofoyedru neighborhood at Nsaba, but has never forgotten his hometown background. That is why since this “Brofoyedru miracle” made it big in Germany, he has proudly ploughed back generously, in the most impressive way, to the development of Nsaba, thanks to his supportive German wife, named Brigitte. Both have made cash donations, as well as in-kind contributions of a laptop, and a state of the art computer flat screen to the Foundation. Other beneficiaries of the generosity of the Danquahs include the Nsaba Islamic Primary/JSS. They have given them books, and donated towards the construction of additional classroom blocks. WHAT A COUPLE . We wish them blessings.Dagger is gone...We don’t know how heacquired his “guy name dagger”. But however it was, it surely did cut through all manner of red tapes to get us six computers, three printers and the only UPS we own at the moment. And dagger always brought them with some of these inspiring e-messages. “gradually we will build the full capacity of the centre, when equipment break down, don’t worry, it’s part of the story. and like they say, success attracts success”. Yes Ebenezer Arthur (dagger) was that kind of a guy. Now he is gone forever. Dead, not to be seen or heard from again. We will miss him .May His Soul Rest In Peace.
