Registered Charity No: 109624
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email:
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Friends of Tafo,
PO Box 43826 London NW6 1XG
EDUCATION (Done Doing To Do)
 
 
 

Projects since 2001 include:

 

Done:

  • Restoration of the Senior Secondary School from one tumble-down classroom block with four pupils and no professional teachers, to Government-recognised Senior High, with two classroom blocks, computer lab, electricity, water, WCs, admin block, library, dining hall, professional staff, sports field, and 500 students - who in 2007 achieved 100% passes in their final exams, six of them achieving University grades

 

In response, Ghana Education Serivce is adding a two-storey Science Block at the school, planning an 18-classroom block, and has just donated a school bus.

  • Equipped all four Junior High Schools with 42 PC computer labs

  • Brought electricity connection to five schools
  • Founded Girls Science Club

  • Funded Needy Pupils for past five years (click here for more details)
  • Funded our first 2 University admissions (i) Julius Apiadu (left) to read History, Music, Sociology and Psychology at Legon (ii) Dankwah Isaac Nkansah (right) to read Agriculture at Tamale (Year 1 costs approximately GBP400 each)

  • Textbooks, toys, sportswear, stationery, and utensils donated to various schools
  • Painted SDA Primary School and Kindergartern
  • Subsidised vacation classes
  • Provided printer, computers, laptops, projector, screen, DVD play and sound equipment

 

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      Doing:

      • Building a Home Econ block at the SHS (Food and Nutrition unit: GBP8,000)
      • Rebuilding Islamic Primary and Kindergarten 

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      To do:

      • Build remaining two Home Econ units (Management in Living / Fashion and Dressmaking: GBP8,000 each): equip all three units (total GBP4,700)
      • Establish on-going University Bursary Fund
      • Convert six Primary classrooms to computer labs for already donated pcs (GBP5,500 each), and train more computer teachers
      • Build a Central Science Lab for Primary and JHS
      • Provide a library in each school
      • Put a cupboard in every classroom 
      • Provide resources, furniture, sports kit, mowers, educational audio equipment, TVs and DVD players for all schools

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