Good Shepherd Anglican JHS gets Sewing Machines
The Assistant Headmistress of Good Shepherd Anglican Junior High School, Miss Ruby Anku, emphasized that these items will be used to serve the intended purpose and reiterated that the school will ask for more since the enrollment has shot up in the last three years.
Joana Somiah 
The Member of Parliament for the people of New Juaben South Constituency, Honorable Michael Okyere Baafi, in the early hours of Sunday, May 9, 2021, through the Adwoa Akyamaa Foundation, donated 5 sewing machines to Good Shepherd Anglican Junior High School, Korle Nkwanta, a suburb of Koforidua, in the Eastern Region of Ghana to climax the mothers day celebration.
The move is part of the MP’s efforts to strengthen vocational education in various schools in the Constituency.
This, according to him will further develop the skills of the basic school students and adequately prepare them for Senior High School (SHS) and if they are able to pursue the course of Home Economics in the SHS, they will be ready for the job market and beyond.
During the presentation, the representative of the MP, Mr John Adade, who is a political assistant of the legislature reiterated, that the core interest of Honourable Michael Okyere Baafi is to enhance education, stressing that success in life is motivated by education.
He narrated, that providing practical equipment for learning will enhance education, and is likely to be a key to reduce the unemployment rate in the constituency since graduands will come out ready for the job market.
Receiving the items on behalf of the school, the Assistant Headmistress, Miss Ruby Anku, expressed her profound gratitude to the Member of Parliament for this timely intervention, adding that, she has been seeking practical assistance from a nearby seamstress during every practical lesson, and opined that the machines are a blessing from the skies.
She emphasized that these items will be used to serve the intended purpose and reiterated that the school will ask for more since the enrollment has shot up in the last three years.
The team that made the presentation on behalf of the legislature were, John Adade, political assistant of the MP, Electoral Area Coordinator, in the person of Honourable Opoku Gyamfi, Mr Samuel Sarkodie, Polling Station Chairman, and Madam Pokua, Polling Station Women Organizer.
William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent
