Rotary Club supports Old Tafo Zion School

The Rotary Club of Accra Ridge with the Rotary Club of San Jose, Jacksonville of the United states of America, has refurbished the Old Tafo Zion Junior High School library and donated some books to the school.

The support was aimed at equipping the School with reading and learning materials and helping to improve reading among the pupils.

Mr Michael Nyarko-Ampem, the President of the Rotary Club of Accra Ridge, said the Club adopted the School more than three years ago and had since provided it with lavatory facilities, facilitated its connection to the national grid and supplied it with six laptop computers to facilitate ICT learning.

He said the objective of the Club was to ensure that the less privileged benefitted from development programmes, which would help to alleviate them from their deplorable conditions.

Mr Nyarko-Ampem said his Club had plans to renovate the school building, build a befitting library for it the school and provide additional computers.

He, however, stated that main challenge facing the Club was how to raise more funds to support such deprived communities.

Mr Nyarko-Ampem, therefore, urged other benevolent organisations with the resources to go to the aid of such deprived communities.

Mr Phillip Atitsogbey, the headmaster of the School said, the School was 65 years old, and it had a population of 68 students, which comprised of 44 boys and 24 girls.

He said in the 2014/2015 academic year, the school had 92 .6 percent passes in the Basic Education Certificate Examination and out of 105 schools in the East Akyem Municipality, it placed 42nd.

Mr Atitsogbey said though the school had received some tremendous support from the Rotary Club of Accra Ridge, it still lacked potable water, computers for pupils to access effective ICT learning, a computer laboratory and others.