Unilever supports Homowo Festival

Accra, Aug. 4, GNA - King Tackie Tawiah III, Ga Mantse, on Tuesday called on stakeholders in the educational sector to review the curriculum of the Junior and Senior High Schools to make them relevant to the needs of the youth.

"The content of education should be pertinent to the needs of the society," he said. King Tackie Tawiah asked educationists to include the various trades such as carpentry and shoe mending in the high school curriculum so that students who could not enter the university and other higher institutions could use those trades to earn a living. King Tackie Tawiah said this when Unilever Ghana donated a cheque for 10,000 Ghana cedis and assorted drinks and household items valued at GH¢ 1,200.00 to the Ga Traditional Council at the Ga Mantse Palace. While the cash donation was to be put in the Ga State Educational Endowment Fund set up by the Ga Traditional Council to support the youth, the household items were to be used to support this year's Homowo Festival.

The Ga Mantse expressed worry about the plight of some students who could not make it to higher learning institution because of circumstances beyond their control adding that if the content of education were reviewed, they could learn a trade and earn a living. He stressed the need to help school dropouts so that they could be useful to all in the society.

Ms Bernice Natue, Corporate Relations Manager, said one of the corporate responsibilities of Unilever was to serve the community within which it operated.

She said Unilever's support to the Ga Educational Endowment Fund was to make life comfortable for the youth in the Ga State. "We want to touch the lives of people in the Ga State, especially the youth, and be part of this year's Homowo Festival," she added. Nii Okaija III, Gbese Mantse and Adonten of the Ga State received the donation on behalf of the Ga Traditional Council. 4 Aug. 09