UK STUDENTS VISIT TEMA MANTSE (PAGE 21)

Four officials and 10 students from Rossington All Saint College in Doncaster in the United Kingdom are in Ghana on a Greenwich Meridian partnership programme between the school and the Akodzo Junior High School in Tema that involves the study of culture between the two counties.
The 14-member delegation, led by the head of the college, Mr David Russel, paid a courtesy call on the Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Kraku.
They were treated to traditional singing and dancing blended with local games by an all-women group of Tema Manhean.
The co-ordinator of the programme, code-named 'Dreams and Teams’, Mr Adu Ayeh, explained that the partnership was sponsored by the British Council to expose British students to the culture of other children in other countries.
He said the two schools had been in the relationship for the past three years during which period visits had been exchanged.
Mr Ayeh said the relationship had led to the presentation of learning materials to the Akodzo school.
Mr Ayeh commended the British Council for the initiative to make available sponsorship package for the future leaders to have first-hand information about each other's country.
He said the British students, who enjoyed playing local games like 'ampe', taught their Ghanaians counterparts how to work on the computer.
Nii Adjei Kraku expressed appreciation for the relationship between the schools, which had been made possible because of the identical locations of the communities associated with the Greenwich Meridian.
He called for the need to have and strengthen a relationship among students of the two schools and appealed to the British Council to extend the programme to cover as many children as possible in Tema Manhean.
Nii Kraku disclosed that the people of Tema had instituted an education fund, which offers scholarships to the needy, and appealed to the leadership of the delegation to enhance the fund by extending a hand to the needy in Tema.
Mr Russell was installed as a development chief of Tema under the stool name Nii Adjetey Angmukeba, which was explained to mean “brought by the mystic (Greenwich)”.
He thanked the chief and elders of Tema and said he was prepared to honour invitations to their traditional celebrations when possible.