GETFund gives Krobo Girls school 33-seater bus

Odumase-Krobo (E/R), Aug 26, GNA - The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) is to award 6,000 scholarships to needy students in teacher training colleges, secondary schools and technical institutes during the 2003/4 academic year.

The Board of Trustees of the Fund has also decided to reserve about 60 per cent of the awards to females.

The Administrator of the Fund, Mr Fosuaba Mensah-Banahene, said this when he presented a 450-million-cedi 33-seater Toyota Coaster bus to the Krobo Girls' Secondary School at Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region on Monday.

He said it is the intention of the Fund not just to provide for the infrastructure development of these schools but would also help raise the standards of education through the removal of disparities and provision of facilities that make realising these goals possible. In furtherance of this mission, he said, the GETfund is investing in rehabilitating infrastructure in many schools and hoped the presentation of the bus would help the Krobo Girls School achieve some of its vision.

Mr Mensah-Banahene said in addition to the provision of the bus the Fund is also funding the construction of a two-storey twelve-unit classroom block and asked the contractor to work within the 18-month schedule.

Other projects include rehabilitation works on the school's dining-hall and other decaying structures on campus.

The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Gladys Appiah, who received the keys thanked the Trustees for the bus and pledged to put it into good use.