Alfred Vanderpuye, Accra Mayor
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19th March, 2010
Two Companies Present Towards AMA Educ. Endowment Fund
Two companies, - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Azar Chemical Industries Limited - have presented cheques totaling GH¢30,158 toward the establishment of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly Educational Endowment Fund.
Mr Jack Urlus, Country Manager of KLM presented an amount of GH¢24,158 while Mr Ghazi Azar, the Managing Director of AZAR Chemical Industries Limited presented GH¢6,000.
Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, the AMA Chief Executive who received the cheques on behalf of the fund thanked the two companies for their kind gesture and appealed to other institutions to go to their aid to change the lives of some unfortunate children roaming the streets of Accra.
The AMA, in January, launched the GH¢6 million endowment fund aimed at providing infrastructure for all public schools in the Accra metropolis.
The fund is to facilitate the implementation of AMA’s decision to abolish the shift system being run by the public schools with effect from next academic year.
Currently there are 120 kindergartens, 359 primary schools and 428 Junior High Schools within the Accra Metropolis with a total population of nearly 170,000 pupils, including 10,000 kindergarten pupils.
Available statistics indicate that classroom space could take approximately only 89,000 pupil at any given time.
In order not to deny the remaining 71,000 children who represent 44 per cent of the school population, their right to education, the Metropolitan Education Directorate had for many years, been compelled to adopt the shift system, by which a classroom is shared between two classes, one in the morning with the other in the afternoon, each doing only four hours of class work instead of eight hours required for meaningful instruction.
Mr Jack Urlus, Country Manager of KLM presented an amount of GH¢24,158 while Mr Ghazi Azar, the Managing Director of AZAR Chemical Industries Limited presented GH¢6,000.
Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, the AMA Chief Executive who received the cheques on behalf of the fund thanked the two companies for their kind gesture and appealed to other institutions to go to their aid to change the lives of some unfortunate children roaming the streets of Accra.
The AMA, in January, launched the GH¢6 million endowment fund aimed at providing infrastructure for all public schools in the Accra metropolis.
The fund is to facilitate the implementation of AMA’s decision to abolish the shift system being run by the public schools with effect from next academic year.
Currently there are 120 kindergartens, 359 primary schools and 428 Junior High Schools within the Accra Metropolis with a total population of nearly 170,000 pupils, including 10,000 kindergarten pupils.
Available statistics indicate that classroom space could take approximately only 89,000 pupil at any given time.
In order not to deny the remaining 71,000 children who represent 44 per cent of the school population, their right to education, the Metropolitan Education Directorate had for many years, been compelled to adopt the shift system, by which a classroom is shared between two classes, one in the morning with the other in the afternoon, each doing only four hours of class work instead of eight hours required for meaningful instruction.
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