Catholic Patrician Brothers build school complex in Brong-Ahafo

Maasu (B/A), April 22, GNA - Patrician Brothers, a Catholic Community founded by Bishop Daniel Delany in Ireland in 1808, is to build a modern school complex at Maasu, near Dormaa Ahenkro. The school, expected to grow from kindergarten to a university college, would offer scholarships to four Dormaa students at each level of academic ladder every year.

The school complex, the personal initiative of the Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Reverend Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, would provide a blend of temporal and secular education to prepare its products adequately for leadership roles. Most Rev. Gyamfi and the Gyaasehene of Dormaa Traditional Council, Barima Yaw Boabasa Ababio, jointly cut the sod to mark the start of the project.

The school, to be named after the founder of the Patrician Brotherhood, will be known as Bishop Delany Academy. Most Rev. Gyamfi said the trend of indiscipline these days required that morally oriented schools be nurtured to curb immorality among the youth.

He said the Patrician Brothers had undertaken similar projects in Austria, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Kenya and Papua New Guinea. Most Rev. Gyamfi thanked the Dormaa Traditional Council for embracing the idea and donating a 65-acre land for the project. He appealed to parents in the area to support the project by offering communal labour and also sending their children to the school.

The Dormaa Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Atta Amponsah, commended the Bishop and the Patrician Brothers for the school complex. He pledged the assembly's support for the project and urged the Municipal Directorate of Education as well as parents to complement the efforts of the Patrician Brothers. The Superior General of the Patrician Brotherhood Jerome Ellens said the child's spiritual and academic advancement were core objectives of the founder of the association. He said the project in Ghana would serve as a memorial stone for the Brotherhood's 200th anniversary.

The chief of Maasu, Nana Gyamfi Kumanyini, pledged his people's support for the project and expressed the hope that the school would complement the efforts of the government at bringing changes into formal education. He appealed to contractors of the project to employ the bulk of their labour force from the local community.