Registered Charity No: 1096242
email:
info@friendsoftafo.org
Friends of Tafo,
PO Box 43826 London NW6 1XG
School fees for needy pupils

A key project in Friends of Tafo's support for children's education is funding children whose parents or guardians have difficulty meeting the cost of attending school, whether at Primary, Junior High or Senior High level. The community's top priority in their vision for education in the town is "no more street children", and the Progress Council works vigilantly to get every child into school.

 

Ghana abolished school fees in an immediate response to the debt cancellation which resulted from the G8 conference in 2006, but every child still has to have a uniform, exercise books and basic stationery, and the cost of this - about GBP10 a year - is beyond some parents and guardians.

 

Accordingly the Kwahu-Tafo Progress Council systematically invites applications from parents, guardians, head teachers and pupils, subjects them to scrutiny and where appropriate commissions the uniform and/or supplies the stationery directly to the pupil's school.

 

 

 

One of the recent beneficiaries is Ofori Yeboah (13).  He was found trying to get manual work as a 9 year-old on the site of the Senior Secondary School. It turned out that, his mother having abandoned him at birth and his grandmother being unable to cope, he had never been to school.  Now he is a promising pupil catching up fast at the Experimental Primary School, where his favourite subject is Maths, and his ambition is to be a soldier. This assistance has come directly through the generosity of FOT supporters.

 

 

 

Here are some other children who have been helped in the past year...

 
 

Ibrahim Moro (12): "I like education because that is my future".

Awuga Beatrice (12): "I come to school in order to be knowledgeable person in the future"

Adofo Isaac (14): "My best subject is Social Studies.  I want to be a footballer."

Jamilatu Mohammed (14): "I want to learn so that I can help this country in the future."

 

 

                        ...and here are some of the children we have assisted in the past.

 

"I am so happy to be at school so that I can become a nursing sister."

 
Gifty Boatemaa (5)
Presbyterian Primary School
(right in picture)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"I am so happy because at first I was not having a uniform and I was driven out from school. But since my school fees were paid, and my uniform given to me, I have no problem. I am happy to be at school because I want to learn, and become a pastor in future."
 
Animakwaa Deric (10)
Presbyterian Primary School
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"I am very happy about the gift I received.
 
I want to learn to become a teacher. My best subject is Maths. I like being at school so that I can play with my friends."
 
Boahemaa Sandra (9)
Presbyterian Primary School
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"I like school because I want to become a soldier man, and school is the only means of obtaining that. My best subjects are English and Science.  I play football very well, and was selected to represent my local area in the 5000 metres race.
 
Please, may I express my sincere gratitude to those people who have helped me."
Amaning Foster (15) Formerly at Presbyterian Junior Secondary School, and now a champion athlete at the Senior High School
 
 
Marmarta Shiney (4), her sister Asamawu Gariba (11) and their grandmother.

Shiney and Gariba have both benefitted from Friends of Tafo's Needy Pupils initiative - Shiney now goes to the Islamic Kindergarten, and Gariba is able to continue attending the Islamic Primary from which she was 'sacked' last year for non payment of fees.

These two sisters were abandoned by their parents a long time ago, and are looked after by their very poor grandmother, who says she could not have sent them to school this year without help.

Gariba is very happy to be back in school, so that she will in the end be able to earn money either as a nurse or a teacher, in order to be able to look after her grandmother. She likes English and other languages best, and generally comes 1st or 2nd in her class.

 
The grandmother doesn't know how to express her thanks for the help the children have received.

She herself is illiterate, but "when a child goes to school," she says, "she gets some knowledge, including house knowledge: and after that she will get good work to do, to help the nation as well as herself."

 
 

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