Madam Josephine Love Apprey, the Headmistress of the St. Joseph Catholic Senior High School (SHS) at Sefwi Datano near Wiawso in the Western North Region, has sent a Save Our Souls (SOS) message to the government, philanthropists and well-meaning Ghanaians to come to the aid of the school with solutions to their nagging problems.
She pointed out that as a young institution; the school is performing creditably in academic works. However, it is beset with burning issues that need to be addressed with utmost attention.
The burning issues include tarring of the road leading to, and within the school, a school bus, expansion of the Information Technology (IT) centre and their reading library.
Madam Apprey made this appeal in an exclusive interview with ghananewsonline.com.gh during the launch of the “Green Ghana” programme at the school last Friday, June 11, 2021. Interestingly, the venue was in a green state.
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 needs some more, as the student population grows in number year after year.
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Programme laudable & Profitable
While commending the organizers for choosing the school as the venue for the programme, Madam Apprey described the programme as laudable and also profitable for the school. This is because it has offered the school the chance to meet people who matter in the society to come there and possibly come to terms with the challenges in the school.
The headmistress stated that the school becomes dusty during the dry 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 over whelmed 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 emphasized 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 chairs 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 the right authorizes.
By S.O. Ankamah, Sefwi Wiawso, Western North Region