An aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for Fanteakwa North Constituency on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Gabriel Keesi Yeboah, has donated some bags of cement to the Begoro Presbyterian Senior High School (SHS).
Speaking to the Eastern File after the short but impressive presentation ceremony at the forecourt of the school’s administration block, the Fanteakaw North parliamentary hopeful stated that he was touched after reading the publication in The Chronicle Newspaper.
According to him, it was unfortunate to see the deteriorating nature of the only SHS in the district regardless of the academic and other curriculum performances.
Mr. Gabriel Keesi Yeboah, who is affectionately known in the political space as One Gabby, assured management of the school of his commitment to use his network and contacts to woo individuals from within and outside the district to come to the aid of the school.
On the same day, the aspirant donated some bags of rice, oil, ram, and goats among others to the Muslim community in the district for the Eid al-Adha Mubarak or the Feast of Sacrifice, which is the second and largest of the two main festivals celebrated in Islam.
It would be recalled that Mr. Gabriel Keesi Yeboah, on May 23, 2023, presented hospital equipment to the Begoro District Hospital in an effort to improve health care delivery in the area.
The items include infant scale, toddler scale, examination lamps, multifunctional beds, delivery sets, baby warmer, delivery bed, bandage adhesive, alcohol pads, lanats, scan gel, drip stands and BP monitor.
Background to the donation
The Chronicle, in its June 7, 2023 edition, carried a story under the headline “Begoro PRESEC in ruins”
It was reported that the school, which is the only SHS in the Fanteakwa North District and located in Kradaso, a community close to the district capital, Begoro, had suffered many infrastructure deficits, a situation which was gradually affecting teaching and learning negatively.
The school was initially started as the Presbyterian Middle Girls Boarding School in the early forties by the Basel Mission, and later converted into the Begoro Women’s Training College on December 10, 1965.
It was later converted to Begoro Secondary School following the phasing out of the Begoro Women’s Training College on August 31, 1972, and has since produced very important personalities who have and are contributing to the socio-economic development of the country.
Notwithstanding its contributions towards national development, it has seen little or no infrastructure development since its inception, as past and present headmasters, teaching and non-teaching staff improvised for teaching and learning to take place.
