FRIENDS OF TAFO - NEEDY PUPILS

The academic acheivement of Kwahu-Tafo youngsters is very striking. Closest to home, the Senior High School in Kwahu-Tafo, revived so successfully by the huge efforts of Kwahu-Tafo Development Council and donors to Friends of Tafo, has begun to produce students with grades in excess of University requirements.

Other young people born in Tafo, but educated at other Secondary Schools for reasons of practicality or choice of elective subjects, are also achieving good enough grades to gain admission.

There are some seven state Unversities in Ghana, along with Teacher Training colleges, Polytechnics and private Tertiary Institutions. The average cost of attending one of the state Universities is around GBP1,000 per year all in, including food and accommodation. In Tafo, such a sum is way beyond their means for most of the subsistence farmer parents.

In 2008 when the first two students won admission to University, Julius Apiadu to study Psychology History Sociology and Music at Legon and Isaac Nkansah Dankwa to read Agriculture at Tamle, Friends of Tafo began to see that they would need help, and started the ball rolling.

The ball has gathered pace: in 2009 the list rose to ten and in 2010 the Progress Council took responsibility for assisting thirty girls and boys in Higher Education.

This puts heavy demands on FOT's fundraising resources. Two of our donors have weighed in with great generosity: Dutch Meyer formed the Henry A. Politz/Cheap Eats Scholarships (in memory of a friend, Dutch and his wife and others eat out cheaply and pool the money they might have spent) and has now undertaken to fund six people through their four years; and Adiran Slade, having built the Library at the Senior High School in 2009, has now instituted two four-year Library Scholarships.

Following their example, we need a lot more help if we are to meet the challenge presented by the outstanding talent of Tafo's youngsters.

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Higher Education The academic acheivement of Kwahu-Tafo youngsters is very striking. Closest to home, the Senior High School in Kwahu-Tafo, revived so successfully by the huge efforts of Kwahu-Tafo Development Council and donors to Friends of Tafo, has begun to produce students with grades in excess of University requirements. Other young people born in Tafo, but educated at other Secondary Schools for reasons of practicality or choice of elective subjects, are also achieving good enough grades to gain admission. There are some seven state Unversities in Ghana, along with Teacher Training colleges, Polytechnics and private Tertiary Institutions. The average cost of attending one of the state Universities is around GBP1,000 per year all in, including food and accommodation. In Tafo, such a sum is way beyond their means for most of the subsistence farmer parents. In 2008 when the first two students won admission to University, Julius Apiadu to study Psychology History Sociology and Music at Legon and Isaac Nkansah Dankwa to read Agriculture at Tamle, Friends of Tafo began to see that they would need help, and started the ball rolling. The ball has gathered pace: in 2009 the list rose to ten and in 2010 the Progress Council took responsibility for assisting thirty girls and boys in Higher Education. This puts heavy demands on FOT's fundraising resources. Two of our donors have weighed in with great generosity: Dutch Meyer formed the Henry A. Politz/Cheap Eats Scholarships (in memory of a friend, Dutch and his wife and others eat out cheaply and pool the money they might have spent) and has now undertaken to fund six people through their four years; and Adiran Slade, having built the Library at the Senior High School in 2009, has now instituted two four-year Library Scholarships. Following their example, we need a lot more help if we are to meet the challenge presented by the outstanding talent of Tafo's youngsters.


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