Assembly institutes scholarship for girls

Effiduase (Ashanti), 20th July 99-

The Sekyere East District Assembly, in collaboration with the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), a non-governmental organization, has instituted a 20 million-cedi scholarship scheme for brilliant but needy girls in first and second cycle schools in the district.

The scheme, which has already taken off, is aimed at enhancing girls' education and improve enrolment of girls in schools in the district.

These were disclosed by Mr Kwame De-Graft Agyei, the District Chief Executive, during the finals of a debate for girls in second cycle schools in the Sekyere East District at Effiduase.

The theme for the debate was "If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if educate a woman you educate a nation - Is this still relevant in the contemporary Ghanaian society today?".

Mr Agyei urged the students to abstain from immoral practices, such as drug addiction, and concentrate on their studies so as to become useful citizens.

In the debate, Kumawu Tweneboa Koduah Secondary School came first with 20.5 points to beat Effiduase Secondary/Commercial School who had 20 points in the finals.

The two schools had earlier disposed off Asokore Ahmadiyya Secondary School and Dadease Agricultural College respectively to reach the finals.

Both winner and runner-up schools were each presented with a world map, a dictionary and a scientific calculator while the losers took home a calculator each.

Mr Daniel Anni Okine, Manager of Effiduase Ghana Commercial Bank who presided, advised girls to disabuse their minds of the notion that science and mathematics are difficult subjects and be determined to rub shoulders with their male counterparts to let the sky be their limit.

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