The Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. J.S. Annan, has observed that investment in quality public education is critical to the nation’s development and is “arguably the best investment any government can make.”
He said the provision of quality education is fundamental to ensuring that no young person had his or her path in life determined by circumstances of birth but that their future is determined rather by their talents and efforts.
“In an opportunity society, a child born into poverty should nevertheless be able to become a doctor, engineer or, most importantly, a teach,” Dr. Annan declared at a ceremony at Juapong, Eastern Region, when SIC Insurance Company Limited presented 14 estate housing units to the local Dorfor Senior High School.
He commended the company for making education a top priority in its corporate social responsibility programmes and recalled that SIC Insurance had in recent times, made various donations to the education sectors, including GH¢10,000 towards infrastructure development at the University of Development Studies in Tamale.
The Juapong ceremony also witnessed a GH¢5,000 donation from SIC Insurance to the Dorfor Senior High School and the company’s handing over of an additional six housing unit to the Juapong branch of the Ghana Health Service.
Mr. Max Cobbinah, Board Chairman of the company formally handed over title deeds on the 14 housing units to authorities of the Dorfor SHS, and urged the students to concentrate on their studies in order to achieve their objectives in life.
In his address, Mr. Benjamin Acolatse, managing director, noted that Ghana would only succeed in its vision of creating an open-opportunity society if all school-going children received access to quality education.
With that in mind, he said SIC Insurance had decided to put its corporate social responsibility focus on ensuring that schools in the country’s poorer communities were radically improved.
He stressed that investments in the educational sector such as teacher development, textbooks and testing, were not the likely to achieve the desired results unless students and teachers felt safe, secure and warm, and unless the classrooms they taught and learnt in were not over-crowded or in poor conditions.
Mr Acolatse thanked the chiefs and elders of Juapong for welcoming SIC into their midst in 1976, when the company sought and acquired 230 acres of land for the construction of 3,500 housing units for workers.
The intended housing project was in response to the then government’s intention to develop the Akosombo – Akuse – Juapong area into a major industrial hub.
The housing project, which was to be undertaken in three phases, however faced numerous problems and SIC management had to directly take over from the contractors.
About 400 units have since been completed and rented out, while a few others have been donated to institutions in the township.
Mr. Acolatse hoped the donation of the housing units would help alleviate the acute housing problems faced by the beneficiary institutions in the Juapong area.
He said the provision of quality education is fundamental to ensuring that no young person had his or her path in life determined by circumstances of birth but that their future is determined rather by their talents and efforts.
“In an opportunity society, a child born into poverty should nevertheless be able to become a doctor, engineer or, most importantly, a teach,” Dr. Annan declared at a ceremony at Juapong, Eastern Region, when SIC Insurance Company Limited presented 14 estate housing units to the local Dorfor Senior High School.
He commended the company for making education a top priority in its corporate social responsibility programmes and recalled that SIC Insurance had in recent times, made various donations to the education sectors, including GH¢10,000 towards infrastructure development at the University of Development Studies in Tamale.
The Juapong ceremony also witnessed a GH¢5,000 donation from SIC Insurance to the Dorfor Senior High School and the company’s handing over of an additional six housing unit to the Juapong branch of the Ghana Health Service.
Mr. Max Cobbinah, Board Chairman of the company formally handed over title deeds on the 14 housing units to authorities of the Dorfor SHS, and urged the students to concentrate on their studies in order to achieve their objectives in life.
In his address, Mr. Benjamin Acolatse, managing director, noted that Ghana would only succeed in its vision of creating an open-opportunity society if all school-going children received access to quality education.
With that in mind, he said SIC Insurance had decided to put its corporate social responsibility focus on ensuring that schools in the country’s poorer communities were radically improved.
He stressed that investments in the educational sector such as teacher development, textbooks and testing, were not the likely to achieve the desired results unless students and teachers felt safe, secure and warm, and unless the classrooms they taught and learnt in were not over-crowded or in poor conditions.
Mr Acolatse thanked the chiefs and elders of Juapong for welcoming SIC into their midst in 1976, when the company sought and acquired 230 acres of land for the construction of 3,500 housing units for workers.
The intended housing project was in response to the then government’s intention to develop the Akosombo – Akuse – Juapong area into a major industrial hub.
The housing project, which was to be undertaken in three phases, however faced numerous problems and SIC management had to directly take over from the contractors.
About 400 units have since been completed and rented out, while a few others have been donated to institutions in the township.
Mr. Acolatse hoped the donation of the housing units would help alleviate the acute housing problems faced by the beneficiary institutions in the Juapong area.
