The 1982 year group of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS), known as Ahenemma, has built and commissioned a 20-seater ultramodern toilet facility at the cost of GH¢280,000 to fight open defecation in the school.
Mrs. Janet Amoako, First Girls Prefect of the school, explained that their leadership visited the Headmaster of the school to have first-hand information about the problems facing the school and realisedthat the male students defecatein public around the school, while others use a latrine, for lack of a better place of convenience for the over 5,000 students in the school.
This, she said, motivated the group to mobilize funds from all Ahenemma in Ghana and the diaspora to get the school a befitting toilet facility to curb the open defecation on the compound.
According to her, the group also donated about 403 exercise books and 93 storybooks, at the cost of GH¢26,000 to the school.
She appealed to the school authorities to cultivate a maintenance culture to ensure that the facility serves its intended purpose to benefit generations to come.
Mr. Ernest Owusu Ansah, Board Chairman and President of Ahenemma Global, lauded the 1982year group for the kind gesture.
He said Ahenemma Global has done a lot for the school and will continue supporting the school in terms of provision of boreholes, teachers’ bungalows, storey buildings, cylinders, stores and a library.
Madam Juliana Krobea Asante, Assistant Headmistress in charge of administration, thanked the group on behalf of the headmaster and the school management for the kind gesture and promised that the school would keep the facility.
She pleaded with other groups of Ahenemma Global to emulate the shining example of the 1982 group because the school needs additional toilet facilities to augment what had been built by the 1982 year group.
The assistant headmistress also lamented about inadequate water supply, lack of computers and textbooks for agriculture and technical skills. She, therefore, called for support.
