ROTARY CLUB ASSISTS GIRLS' SHS (PAGE 46)

THE Serwaa Kesse Girls Senior High School (SHS) at Duayaw Nkwanta in the Brong Ahafo Region has received 800 books worth US$8,000 to start a library project as a measure of inculcating reading habit in the students.
The donation was in response to an appeal made by the school authorities to the Rotary Club of Tema Meridian for support to establish a library.
The books cover various subject areas like biology, chemistry, physics, integrated science, home economics and history, as well as encyclopaedia and reference books for teachers.
The headmistress of the school, Ms Janet Ansuh, who received the books on behalf of the school in Tema, said the school, with a population of 772 students, lacked library facilities and teachers.
Ms Ansuh stated that the school authorities were happy with the club’s decision to include schools in the rural areas in the distribution of books.
She said most times, schools in the rural areas were neglected when it came to the sharing of logistics, despite the fact that students in those areas also needed educational materials to study in order to become useful citizens in future.
Ms Ansuh stated that students of the Serwaa Kesse Girls SHS were making efforts to raise their standards, and therefore needed assistance so as to achieve their goals.
The President of the club, Ms Regina Naana Essandoh, who made the presentation, said the Rotary Club of Tema Meridian was made up of women in business, professionals and community elders.
She said the club, therefore, had as its primary agenda the promotion of literacy to help develop the human resource base of the country.
Ms Essandoh was of the view that the club would henceforth send its humanitarian services to the hinterland to support the underprivileged in society.
She stated that members of the club would not relent in their efforts to seek support from elsewhere to extend similar assistance to the local people.
Ms Essandoh urged the students and teachers of the school to make good use of the books to encourage the club to continue to support them.
She said one of the objectives of Rotary Club of Tema Meridian was to render invaluable services to society and would therefore continue to extend its services to the needy and the vulnerable in society.