EDUCATION (Done Doing To Do)

Projects since 2001 include:

 

Done:

 

We have:

 

• Transformed the ailing private Presbyterian Senior Secondary School into Kwahu-Tafo Senior High School, formally recognised by Ghana Educational Service in 2007.
• Rebuilt the Islamic Primary School and Kindergarten
• Introduced a Needy Pupils Scheme
• Funded the first 10 Higher Education bursaries
• Twinned all 6 Primary Schools and 3 of our Junior High Schools with UK partners
• Created a Girls Science Club
• Brought electricity to 5 schools
• Computerised all four Junior High Schools
• Subsidised vacation classes
• Shipped thousands of second-hand books
• Supplied every school with a radio / CD player for the improvement of spoken English

• Established a Junior High School Reading Prize 

 

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Doing:

 

We are:

 

• Equipping and opening the Home Economics Unit at the Senior High School 
• Funding 30 Higher Education bursaries 2010-2011
• Enabling still more Needy Pupils to attend schooling
• Building a Library and Staffroom at Methodist Junior High School
• Training teachers in basic ICT maintenance, and contracting on-call back-up 

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To do:

We want to:

• Secure funding to continue the Higher Education bursaries programme
• Finish the computerisation of all 6 Primary Schools
• Maintain and develop the Royal Music Academy
• Network and connect all schools to the Internet
• Renew all the 180 old second-hand computers in the JHSs
• Build a Library and Staffroom at SDA JHS
• Provide furniture for the rebuilt Islamic School
• Twin Presby Junior High School with a UK school
• Twin Kwahu-Tafo Senior High School with a UK counterpart
• Twin St. Joseph Technical Institute with a UK counterpart

 

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Who we are - Friends of Tafo Committee