Christ Family Congregation to Build A School for Dzapatra

Michael Hagan — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:48:14 +0000

The Christ Family Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Asylum Down, Accra, will soon build a school at Dzapatra, a village located in the Adeiso District of the Eastern Region.

The village with a population of about 500 people lack basic amenities such as school, potable water, clinic or a place of convenience (toilet).

The Reverend Ofosu Gyeabour Adarkwa, Pastor in charge of the Christ Family Congregation, who made the announcement at the one year anniversary of the Salvation Preaching point, the only church in the community, called on government and other benevolent organisations to come to the aid of the community.

The Christ Family Congregation last year embarked on an evangelism mission in the village of Dzapatra and established the Salvation Preaching point, which is the only church in the community.

The Dzapatra village which has been in existence for more than 100 years is dominated by idol worship.

Rev. Gyeabour Adarkwa said “no church has been able to penetrate or send the gospel there.

“As Presbyterians we believe in training the heart, the head and the hands, we train the mind to acquire knowledge, the heart to love God and the hands to work with, so we have also decided to build a clinic and a place of convenience for the people of Dzapatra in the near future”.

Rev. Gyeabuor Adarkwa called on the government and the ‘good people of Ghana’ to join hands with the Christ Family Congregation to embark on these developmental programmes in the village.

The Dzapatra Salvation Preaching point currently has a membership of 150 comprising 60 adults and 90 children.

Source: GNA

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Robotics to Become a Teaching Subject at Basic Schools

Michael Hagan — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:40:38 +0000

Deputy Minister for Education in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced that soon, Robotics, a branch of science studies would be taught right from the basic level of education.

This, he said followed the triumphant winning of the Methodist Girls Senior High School (Meghis) at an international competition held in the USA, beating Japan, Korea and USA, world technological giants among others at the 19th edition of the Robofest competition.

He said the exploits of the team from Meghis, who represented Ghana, had made it clear that Ghana had the potential to exploit Robotics as a subject of study and therefore, the Ministry would want to pursue that.

Announcing this at the Akwasidae of the Chiefs and People of the Kyidom/ Mamfe Traditional Council in collaboration with the Akuapem traditional area, the Deputy Minister also indicated that one of the coordinators that coached the team to victory, Mr Ben Amoako would be absorbed into the Ghana Education Service.

A Gh¢ 5, 000,000 cedis endowment fund was also established by the Kyidom/Mamfe Council for the Methodist Girls Senior High School’s science related activities.

According to Dr Adutwum, the victory of the girls was no mean achievement giving the fact, that some of the countries they contested with such as the USA “Robotics are taught right from the basic level and so for these girls who only started the robotics at the secondary school level to beat them, it is a great honour”.

Mr Ben Amoako, a private person who was hired by the school to coach the 10-member team in addition to Paulina Ansaa Captan, an old girl of the school who completed last year. The duo led the school to win the Robofest competition.

Dr Adutwum commended the Traditional Council for taking the lead to establish the endowment fund to enhance the potentials of the team and pledged government’s support to ensure that the target of the fund was fully realized.

The Member of Parliament for Okere and Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, said the performance of the girls must be hyped to serve as an encouragement to all girls that education was not the reserve of boys.

He noted that recently, there had been reports that Girls at the Junior High school level in Ghana were smoking shisha adding that, “the success stories of these girls must be told everywhere to influence girls to sit up.”

Mr Botwe pledged the contribution of the Eastern Caucus of Members of Parliament to the endowment fund and improvement of education at large in Akuapem and the Eastern Region.

Source: GNA

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Robotics to Become a Teaching Subject at Basic Schools