GHACEM Limited has supported the construction of BOPA College of Arts and Sciences located at Awutu Bawjiase in the Central Region with 1,000 bags of cement.
The donation, according to the Foremost Cement Manufacturer, is in line with the objectives of its GHACEM Cement Foundation, a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative set up to provide free cement for educational and health infrastructure in deprived communities in Ghana.
The Foundation has for 14 years running donated about 420,000 bags valued at about GHC13.4 million, with over 4,263 communities across the country having benefitted.
Morten Gade, Managing Director of GHACEM, disclosed this at a short ceremony to hand over the cement bags to representatives of the institution.
Present to receive the donation on behalf of the school were Rev. Dora-Otema Q. Ayesu, Executive Director and Solomon Asante, the Project Coordinator.
Mr. Gade emphasized that developing nation requires a trained, educated and healthy human resource and the GCF would continue to give priority to education and health infrastructure in the country.
He commended leadership of the institution for their commitment and strength to undertake such a project that will provide quality training for under privileged young girls.
“This is an inspiration because it takes a lot of conviction and trust to make it happen.”
GHACEM, he said, will continue to identify viable projects in health and education and provide the needed support.
He called on all to support the company’s quest to manufacture high quality cement to build the nation.
Receiving the donation, Rev. Ayesu said that the project began in the early 1990s with the sole aim of complementing government’s effort at alleviating poverty and unemployment among the youth, especially girls through vocational training in courses such as textile decoration and home economics.
The multi-purpose school block, which began eight years ago, is expected to be partly completed by December 2016 to accommodate the school that has currently been ejected from its rental premises.
Rev. Ayesu thanked GHACEM for the donation, describing it as a timely intervention to partly complete the project for the institution to continue with its activity of offering the girl-child quality education.
Source: Daily Guide
