Bayerebon No. 3 (Ash), Nov. 24, GNA 96 The Langtree School in England (United Kingdom) is to provide a block of three classrooms for the Bayerebon Number Three District Assembly Junior Secondary School (JSS) in the Atwima-Mponua District of Ashanti.
The assistance forms part of a programme under which the Langtree School, which has adopted the community, will send teachers from the UK to assist in teaching.
Miss Karen Bridges, a product of the Langtree School, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency at Bayerebon on Thursday, said an initial amount of 51 million cedis had been released for the commencement of the project in January next year.
She said the school in a bid to assist a deprived community in Africa, was directed to Bayerebon through interactions with some officials of the Kuapa Kokoo Limited, a Licensed Cocoa Buying Company on the Internet.
Miss Bridges said she then abandoned teaching in the UK and travelled to the country at her own expense and that during her four-month stay in the community, she would be teaching in the school to have a taste of rural teaching to enrich her experience as a professional teacher.
Mr Paul Yaw Owusu, head teacher, expressed gratitude to the Langtree School for such assistance and said it was the first of its kind in the community.
He urged teachers, parents, pupils and other stakeholders in education to give their maximum support by providing communal labour when the project begins.
Mr Owusu commended the Kuapa Kokoo Limited, which had earlier provided the primary school with a six-unit classroom block.
