Education needs more investment - Right Reverend Dr. Samwini

The Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist Church of Ghana and its partner, Living Word United Methodist Church in the United States, has built a storey building and a computer laboratory for the Methodist Primary School in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region.  

The storey building is made up of six class rooms.  

It will admit students from the Kindergarten who hitherto to look for opportunities in distant schools.  

The Living Word United Methodist Church in the United States also donated desktop and laptop computers to the school to enable them enhance teaching and learning of ICT in the school. 

Since the GES made ICT examinable in the BECE teachers always use their laptops and sometimes smartphones to teach the students since the school cannot boast of one single computer. 

The Country Representative of the Living Word United Methodist Church in the United States, Mary Kay Jackson, donating the computers asked why the government and players in the education sector have made ICT examinable and cannot provide computers for the schools. She described the situation as unacceptable. 

Madam Kay Jackson impressed on the ministry of education to support the basic schools in that regard.  

She pledged her outfit’s readiness to partner the Methodist Church of Ghana to better the life’s of Ghanaians particularly those in the rural communities. 

 
The Diocesan Bishop of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist Church, the Right Reverend Dr. Nathan Iddrisu Samwini, who did the dedication ceremony, said the Methodist Church of Ghana had contributed a lot to socio-economic development of the nation apart from its religious duties and will continue with the process. 

He stated that when it comes to investment in people, education and health stand tall because they are very crucial tools to any nation's development. 

He said students can only perform when a conducive environment is provided for them to learn. 

He said the intervention of the Methodist Church of Ghana and it partner will complement the Government's efforts at building school infrastructure, particularly, the elimination of schools under trees project. 

Right Rev. Dr Iddrisu Samwini challenged the leadership of the School to take good care of the project and ensure that it is constantly maintained to prolong its lifespan. 

The Headmistress of the Methodist Primary school, Eunice Lamisi Akamugre, commended the Methodist Church of Ghana and its partner for the gesture. 

She said school has been running a shift system whereby some of the students come in the morning and others too come in the afternoon but with an additional block the school will no longer run a shift system. 

This, she noted, was impacting negatively on teaching and learning.  

Madam Lamisi Akamugre said the intervention has come at a good time and promised that her outfit will put the building into good use. 

In attendance were the Diocesan Synod Secretary, Very Rev. Sampson Obeng Adjei, Diocesan Mission Secretary and Supt Minister, Very Rev. Cosmos Kabaya and Diocesan Lay Chairman, Victor Tettey among other functionaries.


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