Officials unveiling the 40th Anniversary Logo
MEMBERS of Chiraa Senior High Old Students and Teachers Association have decided to construct a sickbay for their alma mater.
This was revealed at the school’s 40th anniversary launch themed, “40 Years of Secondary Education, Achievements, Challenges and Prospects’.
Speaking at the occasion, a member of the old student association, Kyere Yaw Stephen, said the advent of COVID-19 pandemic which disrupted school calendars has made it necessary for every school to have a sickbay to forestall any such challenge in the future.
‘As part of our contribution to protect the young ones in the school going forward, we the members of the Chiraa Senior High Old Students and Teachers Association spanning from 1982 have decided to construct a sickbay for our alma mater.
This is going to cost GH¢400,000 and we wish to cut sod for construction during the 40th Anniversary celebration which comes off later October this year.
When complete the sickbay will have male and female wards, OPD, dispensary, consulting rooms among other facilities’.
He appealed to all old students both home and abroad to contribute significantly towards the successful starts and completion of the project.
The headmaster of the school, Francis Antwi- Bosiako was grateful to the government for providing the school with both boys and girls dormitories and classrooms blocks for accommodation of over two thousand students.
“Our challenge however is dining and assembly halls. When we get a well constructed dining hall it can serve a dual purpose of serving as an assembly hall’. So we are appealing to the government and all benevolent organisations and philanthropists to come to their aid in this regard.
The guest speaker at the launch was Prof. Martin Obeng Ababio from the Geography Department of the University of Ghana, Legon who himself was once a national service person at the school.
He advised the students to take their studies serious irrespective of the challenges they go through today.
He noted that the Free SHS Policy has come with a corresponding challenges of infrastructure at the tertiary level so pleaded with government to provide the necessary infrastructure to close the gaps.
A professor of Sociology from the same university, Professor Yaw Oheneba- Sakyi was assisted by the first headmaster of the school, Emmanuel Krobea Asante, the current headmaster and Chiraahene, Barima Minta Afari to unveil the 40 year anniversary logo for the celebration.
FROM Daniel Y. Dayee, Chiraa