A Girls School in Ghana
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13th May, 2010
New Girls School For Kassena - Nankana
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo, has performed the ground breaking ceremony for work to begin on a new school project for the Our Lady of Lourdes Girls Senior High School at Gaani in the Kassena-Nankana East District.
The first phase of the project, which is to be funded by the GETFund, is valued at GHC1.4 million and would include a dormitory, classrooms and access roads to the various sections of the school.
The chief and people of the Gaani community offered a 280-hectare land to the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocese, the main owner of the project. The Church decided to convert the mixed school, to a girls' school.
The new facilities for the school would include an administration block, a library, 800 capacity dining hall, two senior staff bungalows and four semi-detached staff bungalows all to be completed by September next year.
Mr. Woyongo commended the chief and people of Gaani for releasing the land for the project and urged the school authority to ensure that the necessary documentation on the land was secured to forestall future litigation.
The headmistress, Reverend Sister Martina Naameh, said the school was initially established in 1958 as a middle school for girls to relieve them from travelling long distance to Saint Agnes School in the Upper West Region.
She said the school had metamorphosed from a co-educational institution to a single sex school, a decision taken by the late Bishop of the Diocese, Most Reverend Lucas Abadamloora, to promote girls' education.
The chief of Gaani, Naba John Akayela, thanked the church and government for the project.
The first phase of the project, which is to be funded by the GETFund, is valued at GHC1.4 million and would include a dormitory, classrooms and access roads to the various sections of the school.
The chief and people of the Gaani community offered a 280-hectare land to the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocese, the main owner of the project. The Church decided to convert the mixed school, to a girls' school.
The new facilities for the school would include an administration block, a library, 800 capacity dining hall, two senior staff bungalows and four semi-detached staff bungalows all to be completed by September next year.
Mr. Woyongo commended the chief and people of Gaani for releasing the land for the project and urged the school authority to ensure that the necessary documentation on the land was secured to forestall future litigation.
The headmistress, Reverend Sister Martina Naameh, said the school was initially established in 1958 as a middle school for girls to relieve them from travelling long distance to Saint Agnes School in the Upper West Region.
She said the school had metamorphosed from a co-educational institution to a single sex school, a decision taken by the late Bishop of the Diocese, Most Reverend Lucas Abadamloora, to promote girls' education.
The chief of Gaani, Naba John Akayela, thanked the church and government for the project.
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