Basic nine pupils of two Junior High Schools; Florence Ntim Junior High School and the Presbyterian Junior High School in the Pepease community in the Kwahu East District are seriously preparing to top this year’s Basic Schools Certificate Examinations in the country. This is showcased in an extra classes programme ran by the Fredrick Osei Ntim Foundation an NGO known as FON. The intensive extra class runs from now till the basic examinations in April this year.
The intensive extra classes run from Mondays to Tuesdays takes pupils through the core subjects; English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. They are taught the techniques in understanding and answering questions, likely examination questions and writing techniques. The move is to make sure the pupils pass the Basic Certificate Examinations with distinctions.
The Fredrick Osei Ntim Foundation FON an NGO which is sponsoring the pupils says they want the pupils to serve as role models for others who still have the perception that “Kwahu people do well in business without formal education” The foundation is not only sponsoring the extra classes by paying the twenty teachers drawn from the Universities and Senior High Schools in the country but also given the pupils support in terms of exercise books and school bags. Some of the pupils TV Africa News spoke to state their preparedness to achieve success and gain access to the Senior High School.
The FON foundation gives exercise books to all pupils in the Pepease Community each year. This year alone about hundred thousand exercise books have been given out by the foundation. The saying goes “make good use of good things” these children are using the exercise books in their best interest leaving no stones unturned to achieve academic success. Aside these FON foundation has also built the Florence Ntim JHS and initiated a teacher’s bungalow project; which has been taken up by the government to complete. The school is popular in the community as the FON school.
Even though everything about the school is sponsored by the foundation; the Ghana Education Service is not aiding the school: this teacher works on a carpenters table whiles this one is struggling to explain computers and the internet to pupils without a single computer. Help comes soon as the foundation promises to purchase fifty personal computers for the whole community.
TVA NEWS