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School children awarded fowls at Speech and Prize Day

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  • ASHANTI SUPERIOR 8 years ago

    What a fuck! Need I say more?

  • KOFI AYIGBE 8 years ago

    AT LEAST, THEY CAN ENJOY A SPECIAL KIND OF CHRISTMAS DAY STEW OR SOUP AND NOT BE INFECTED BY THE KOKLO DEKA SYNDROME.

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  • ST. GHFUO, is this the best you can d 8 years ago

    OR TO GO N REAR FOR BABY CHICKENS N EGGS? WHY DIDNT U GIVE THEM A LAPTOP, GIFT CERTIFICATES TO KUMASI MALL OR TICKETS TO GO WATCH KOTOKO GAMES? GIVE THESE KIDS EXPERIENCES...

  • Osei Kofi 8 years ago

    Some of you guys talk as though you live in cocoons. Does the school even have the resources to provide laptops for the school's computer lab, let alone buying laptops for individual students? So quick to say in America, in ...
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  • OMANBA KWAKU 8 years ago

    I wonder why GH people are always comparing themselves to America. What do Americans do that GH does even 1% of?
    You better compare yourselves to Togo and Nigeria and stop the noise. Come to America and see laws work and com ...
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  • Agyakwakuo Twumpuduo 8 years ago

    We have allowed our leaders to think small so next time they will give frogs

  • Amartey 8 years ago

    Bam ma brother
    At tymz sum of us don't reason

  • Nana Adwoa: New York 8 years ago

    Koo Sei I can't but agree with you.I was shocked reading some of the comments it tells me we our of touch...no comment again Laptop and Laptop aside the coat is the school equipped resource wise to be able to make it relevan ...
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  • OMANBA KWAKU 8 years ago

    Give them laptops? Which model, please? The one made in Wiamoase?
    Have you( GH) produced any laptops to be given to them ? You cannot give what you don't have.

  • BAAH AKYEAMFOUR 8 years ago

    AFTER ALL, THAT COMPANY IS A MEGA JOHN MAHAMA AND THE NTAFOUR LOOT & SHARE PLAN

  • Big J 8 years ago

    Ghanaians can talk! Instead of applauding the school authorities, listen to what some ppl are saying, as if they live in a different world. In the recent past (I am still quite young), we used to get an egg from our parents a ...
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  • Truth 8 years ago

    You are absolutely right Big J. It is the babies with sharp teeth who are making noise

  • Atugabiig 8 years ago

    Since you think it is rather expedient to offer the kids laptops, why don't you get them some?
    Drive there one of these days and present the laptops to these kids.
    They will greatly appreciate it.
    The head master had noth ...
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  • Kweku trouble 8 years ago

    Do you know what the kids need better than the school authorities who live in the community with them? For all you know families there can't even buy a whole chicken on Christmas day. This could even be an encouragement for ...
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  • Amartey 8 years ago

    Hmmmm
    Ma dear we're talking abt a village sku whr even capitation grant doesn't get. Who shd buy da laptop? The head? Or the poor teachers with the meagre allowance as salary?? At times we shd sound realistic and objective

  • Madam R 8 years ago

    Oh Master, you should have given them some kid of learning materials. Are you training them to come and chew chicken?

  • abeiku 8 years ago

    He want to be responsible for the chicken lives

  • OMANBA KWAKU 8 years ago

    Learning materials like what? Can't they learn anything from the chicken? Don't they study agric and biology of farm animals?

  • Kwame,bronx 8 years ago

    Next time akonf3m.lol

  • Hanson 8 years ago

    Somebody trying to make a point?

  • rich 8 years ago

    no akonf3m creat tproblems amoung others..... rememember wht a stolen akofe3m did to others...ooo ahahahhah what a reasonable point

  • Larry K.,NEW YORK 8 years ago

    Gift certificate indeed.what is wrong in giving a fowl.My skns in the USA were very happy.Bros,lets accept the unique position of this school.We wouldnt have heard it but for the unique award.No offense to anyone but i believ ...
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  • KnYc USMC 8 years ago

    What is wrong with this? In America sometimes your employer offer you Gift Certificate to KFC, so what is the difference? You people act as if you got something going on in that country. Don't you know the headmaster is tryin ...
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  • Nana Yaw Danso 8 years ago

    What's the difference???? The difference is that: 1. The kids are not employees of the head teacher. 2. You don't go to KFC the buy life chicken!
    Idiot, learn the premise of your argument before you start to text.

  • OMANBA KWAKU 8 years ago

    Please what do you think the headmaster should have given them, and why?

  • Kweku trouble 8 years ago

    "Idiot, learn the premise of your argument before you start to text."

  • Amartey 8 years ago

    See who z talking. U shd b ashamed of ursef. Who shd buy da laptop?! The teachers, using their little salary. These teachers r trying to do sumtin worthy and u there pouring insults. It is a typical Akan community and as ur n ...
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  • OMANBA KWAKU 8 years ago

    GH PEOPLE TALK AS IF THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING BETTER. THE BASIC FACTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, LAW, IS EVEN NONEXISTENT, YET THEY TALK AS IF THEY ARE DOING ANYTHING.

  • Bukari Dramani 8 years ago

    I disagree with those castigating the school's innovation. Obviously it is the end of year and the fowls will be more useful for our day party. Very very important for the rural school kids. It will rather encourage others to ...
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  • Solomon Argentina 8 years ago

    Hahaha.oh Ghana .are you calling this award?shame Asantes.Akoko award.

  • africa 8 years ago

    Shallow minded individuals like you are surfacing.What is the meaning of Award or Gift presentation. The act of calling these winners infront of the whole school psycologically surpasses everything. I have been to so many awa ...
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  • Good 8 years ago

    Congrats, at least the headmaster us encouraging Agriculture

  • and he said what? 8 years ago

    One school child, one fowl.

  • Nack 8 years ago

    Kwaku Sakyi Addo, don't deny that, how did the school authorities got the fowls from, if they bought them then why can't they used the money to buy exercise books for them, (akoko nkwan) shame.

  • Ab 8 years ago

    If parents are smart they will start a small poultry farming.

  • Tenneson 8 years ago

    Let's not take prizes given to this children out of context because the authority might awarded what that community cherish as a mean to motivate them to work harder. We should rather congratulate them at least to encourage o ...
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  • Common Man 8 years ago

    Thank you sir.
    May we know what other schools did in this direction that is better?
    Many others did NOTHING!!!!!
    This is Ghana. Some try to be innovative and those who did nothing will talk and talk. What was started can b ...
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  • PKW 8 years ago

    Majority of those commenting negatively on the awards haven't taught before and have spent almost all their lives in the cities.

    Sometimes an award is not to target an individual but the entire family (of the individual)
    ...
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  • Ali Mahama 8 years ago

    I think Story books should have been ideal to impact more knowledge in them than Fowls which they will enjoy only in a day.

  • Gyang Amponsah 8 years ago

    l support the prizes given to the best performers in that school. ln our culture, a gift of a household bird or animal teaches the recipient to rear it and make a capital out of it to support you financially. We must encourag ...
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  • Lj 8 years ago

    Very novelistic award. These teachers in Ghana.

  • Yaw Bee. 8 years ago

    Guys, it is term 3 and you all know that it is ''our day'' season.

  • JB 8 years ago

    What's wrong with that. The most important thing is they emerged victorious and that should be encouraged and not this unprofessional media propaganda.

  • kofi Nsowa 8 years ago

    in fact the school authorities have made me proud. those who are against this move by the authorities do not know the value of fowls in rural communities. Do you even know how they came by the fowls? Some even play soccer wit ...
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  • Marshall 8 years ago

    What is wrong with some of us Ghanaians? No wonder we are where we are.copying blindly has led us to where we are.The school authority should be praised for donating their widows might. To those who are mocking, Donate what y ...
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  • Ema 8 years ago

    congratulation to the school authorities and the award winning pupils. Am excited for the use of local resources to achieve the motivating effect for our rural pupils.

  • hawa 8 years ago

    bravo to the school authorities for that noble award to the school children

  • Ametefe 8 years ago

    Wisest gift

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  • Agyakwakuo Twumpuduo 8 years ago

    What a stupid nation, all over the world teachers motivate school kids with educational kits but we have stupid and uneducated educational authorities who cannot think. A fowl for what? We lack leaders and this is the time to ...
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  • africa 8 years ago

    Shallow minded individuals are surfacing.What is the meaning of Award or Gift presentation. The act of calling these winners infront of the whole school psycologically surpasses everything. I have been to so many awards where ...
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  • GFO 8 years ago

    The other day I over heard two students of College of Education discussing that the teacher should take the sociology- economic background of the child in giving them award. I think that was precisely what the teachers or the ...
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  • GFO 8 years ago

    I can hear the shrill cry of Eno Yaa admonishing her child Efua Mercy for bringing home no fowl. Efua Mercy responds, please if you could give me the learning resources and stop asking me to go and sell at the market twice in ...
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  • EMMANUEL 8 years ago

    THIS IS A BRILLIANT IDEA SUPPOSE THE FOWLS ARE FEMALE IN A YEARS TIME HOW MANY FOWLS WILL THEY GET IF THEY REAR

  • dela 8 years ago

    well the youth are now looking for white collar jobs and wants to drive in flashy cars. but the basics of most developing and developed countries is agriculture which they feel ashamed of . congrats to the school and the kid ...
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  • George USA 8 years ago

    That is a smart move on the part of the head to bring the school into the lamp light. I am sure some of you making negative comments don't even know where the school is. Besides the chicken could be a good motivation to enhan ...
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  • MTK 8 years ago

    Hahaha!
    People should stop lambasting the authorities of the school. The efforts of the authorities should be appreciated. The sages say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. The financial position of the school ...
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  • Attobra 8 years ago

    Dont judge. Do u know the school? Its deprived the students write on slates the headmaster knows what he us doing he knows how to motivate his students.

  • Fenna 8 years ago

    I bet u, with kids, chicken and eggs make them learn harder and pay attention while in class...try that with your kids

  • Blessing 8 years ago

    I think the children should be provided with some educational materials. This can be done anyone who wishes to do so.

    It would be good of when such stories are written more information (contact) can be provided so one can ...
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  • Nana Yaa 8 years ago

    Fowls?...really. smh

  • junior k 8 years ago

    Hahaha

  • Frank 8 years ago

    It's part of their story they will share in the future.

  • Isaac Addo 8 years ago

    dis school authority are lacking common sense

  • ALHALPHA 8 years ago

    Those who are not in support should buy the storybooks and the laptop computers and send it to them as additional award.
    You have donated nothing yet insulting others who have done their part. Why?

  • prince 8 years ago

    Improvisation in any form makes the best teacher ; excellent job done

  • Mc.D 8 years ago

    Ghanaians just like making noise I don't know why? People can cannot buy one fullscap note for their children but expect poor skull to buy laptop for skull children. What all is wrong with what they gave them?We criticize as ...
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  • Mc.D 8 years ago

    stupid journalist will pick something somewhere and make it a news.How do u know if they present something in addition to what u see?jimmy!!!

  • charles Mensah 8 years ago

    In Zimbabwe, u can pay school fees with a goat. This is a new beginning for Ghana

  • pataku 8 years ago

    The chicken can be raised and the egg produce canbe sold or more chick's can also raised and have more chicken they can be sold and the money can sometimes help pay for school fees

  • Dzery b 8 years ago

    Just as dey can establish bougar MIT factory in north then akukor factory needs to b establish there. To aiid 1. Pupil 1 fowl project

  • eddy murphy 8 years ago

    next ur by this time if these children take judicious care of these fowls do u know how profitable it's gonna be to them...I therefore challenge any of these students to care for his or her fowl till next year...

  • Dr. Boa. USA 8 years ago

    I see nothing wrong with the gusture. Ghanaians talk too much. At least these kids are rewarded with something practical. For God's sake, the would eat nkwanpa for once. Leave them alone.

  • Paa Jackson 8 years ago

    Not all issues must be condemned or laughed at. Am much impressed by the way some teachers are going out of their ways to encourage learning in our deprived schools. We should rather shame and laugh at the GES and MoE but not ...
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  • Ekow Anaman Asamankese 8 years ago

    Eeiiiiii Ghana!!! Hmmmmmm. Kweaku I agree with you fully. May be this is follow up of a story which also went viral on social media with children in ICT class, also in basic school using stones as their innovation of computer ...
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  • Agyarkoh Kwabena 8 years ago

    A nice gesture... It goes to confirms that Ghanaians are committed to the revamping of the Agriculture Sector of our economy.

    Anyway, I wish the school's authority told them to rear them and the prize were hens and not coc ...
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  • DINPA 8 years ago

    Oh fellow ghanaians anytn which symbolises agric is bad what is wrong with awarding fowls is it not a brilliant step to make establishment of poultry attractive to these young ones...I jx can't think far