Headmistress of the St. Joseph Catholic Senior High School (SHS) at Sefwi Datano near Wiawso in the Western North Region, Madam Josephine Love Apprey, has sent an SOS message to government, philanthropists and well-meaning Ghanaians to come to their aid in finding solution to nagging problems facing the school.
She pointed out that as a young institution, the school is performing creditably academic wise. However, it is beset with burning issues that need to be addressed with utmost attention.
These burning issues, she mentioned, are the tarring of the road leading to, and within the school, a school bus, expansion of the IT centre and library of the school.
Madam Apprey made this appeal in an exclusive interview with THE CUSTODIAN during the launching of the “Green Ghana” programme at the school last Friday, June 11 2021.
The headmistress was quick to render profuse gratitude to the school’s benefactors “clap for Jesus” in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.
She indicated however that like Oliver Twist, the school needed some more, as students’ population grows in numbers year after year, hence her SOS message.
Programme laudable & profitable
While commending organizers for choosing the school as venue of the green Ghana programme, Madam Apprey described the initiative as laudable and also profitable for the school.
This is because it had offered the school the chance to meet people who matter in the society to come to there and possibly come to terms with challenges in the school.
The headmistress stated that the school becomes dusty during dry the season and also muddy during the raining season, especially the path leading to the school from the main road.
Touching on the ICT centre and the library, Madam Apprey noted that since the number of students increases year after year, with the school’s academic performance, it was overwhelmed by existing facilities there.
‘I am highly elated’
Madam Apprey pointed out that she was highly elated at the fact that her school of all schools in the district was chosen as venue for the programme, while thanking God for this, the headmistress was quick to attribute this to discipline.
She stated that being a catholic school, discipline is high, hence its choice for the programme.
We need trees
Describing the programme as great and a big success, the headmistress stressed the importance of trees and the need for mankind in his daily life. Recalling the saying “the last man dies when the last tree dies, Madam Apprey emphasized the need for tree planting by all, especially students.
This is because the tables and chair they use come from trees. As a result, tree–planting should be inculcated in them.
Madam Apprey called on all to adopt tree – planting as a habit to ensure that trees planted in particular are nurtured, maintained and sustained in our efforts to restore the lost forest cover.
She urged all to report destroyers of the forest cover to concerned authorizes.
