Turkish aid agency donates equipment to Ghanaian school
- Daily News - Turkey
- Aug 3, 2015
- 2 min read
The Turkish government, through the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), has donated laboratory equipment worth $25,000 to a prominent high school in Ghana. The Achimota School, which is located in Ghanaian capital Accra, is credited with producing a number of outstanding students in the past, including two former.
The Turkish government, through the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), has donated laboratory equipment worth $25,000 to a prominent high school in Ghana.
The Achimota School, which is located in Ghanaian capital Accra, is credited with producing a number of outstanding students in the past, including two former presidents.
Some 1,600 of the school’s science students are expected to benefit from the Turkish largesse.
Speaking at a handing-over ceremony for a fully refurbished science laboratory in Accra on Thursday, Turkey’s deputy ambassador to Ghana, Fatih Cangur, voiced hope that the donation would serve to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries.
TIKA, he said, was “keen on supporting Ghana through various projects, including the renovation of an orphanage and logistical support for various Ghanaian NGOs.”
Cangur went on to note that trade volumes between the two countries had risen to $300 million in 2014.
Mehmet Yazgan, TIKA’s representative for West Africa, said the aid agency had also begun training personnel at the Ghana water Institute and the Ghana Health Service.
The Achimota School’s teaching staff, meanwhile, praised the contributions made by Turkey.
“Teachers will now have real equipment with which to help students understand what they read in textbooks,” school headmistress Beatrice Adom told Anadolu Agency after the ceremony. “This, in turn, will help us produce better graduates.”
Science student Wendy Zien, for her part, told Anadolu Agency: “We usually write practical examinations, but we don’t know what equipment we’re writing about. Now we can draw, label and actually identify the equipment used in our course.”
School prefect Samuel Adjetey, meanwhile, said the donated equipment would “help us a lot in understanding what we study.”
“Students had struggled because we didn’t have a working laboratory,” Adjetey told Anadolu Agency.
Source: Dailynewsx.com
By: Umaru Sanda Amadu
