Kumkumso M/A commemorates 65th anniversary with speech and prize-giving day

Kumkumso M/A commemorates 65th anniversary with speech and prize-giving day

The Sefwi Kumkumso M/A Primary/KG school in the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region has marked its 65th anniversary Speech and Prize Giving Day.

The anniversary was themed “Maintaining Our Heritage, Transforming Our Country Through Quality Education.”

Madam Florence Afful-Adze, the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai Municipal Director of Education, urged parents and Guardians to invest in their wards’ education.

According to her, investing in the education of their children must be considered the topmost priority over any other thing.

She bemoaned how some parents and guardians had the notion that investing their monies at banks, trading or doing other business are the best ways to get profits, since they want to be successful in the future.

However, she discourages that belief and added that investments in education should be seen as the biggest thing in order to bear its fruit in the future.

“At times we want to trade, we want to invest our monies at the Bank to get profits and at times want to do other businesses to earn profits and be successful in future but having a child is a blessing from God so investing in child’s education is very important and better than other investments that we do,” she stated.

She thus schooled parents not to see the investments they have made in their wards’ education as immediate profit but should project enjoying its return in some 10 or 15 years.

The school, as part of the activities of the speech and prize-giving day, awarded some of the students and the rest.

In a brief history of the school, Mr. Emmanuel Agyapong, the headmaster of the school, said that the school was established in 1958 with 15 pupils by the Roman Catholic Church and the aim was to provide quality and accessible education to children of the people in the area, who were predominantly cocoa farmers. The school’s motto is “Knowledge is Power.”

He bemoaned “the school’s population 577  disturbingly, the pupils are lacking the privilege to enjoy their basic right to quality education for lack of school building and other necessary materials for effective teaching and learning.”

The school has produced eminent personalities who have served and in continue to serve in various capacities both at home and abroad.

He appealed to alumni and other benevolent individuals and organizations to support the school, especially in the area of infrastructural development.

Mr Amaning Issac, the Assembly member for the area on his part, also appealed to non-governmental, charitable organisations, corporate entities, and philanthropists’ home and abroad to come to their aid “to secure the future of these little ones.” because their JHS block has become a death trap.

Source:Bibianinews.com