Employees of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Ghana’s largest power generation company, have held a two-day career talk programme for the students of the Tema Manhean Senior High Technical School in the school.
The educative programme, aimed at helping the recipients to know who they were and to further prepare them for their future careers, formed part of the Employee Volunteer Programme (EVP) of the VRA.
The mentors took the students through tailored sessions, which included Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Mental Health, Career Guidance and ICT Boot, all in a bid to help to contribute to the beneficiaries’ future development.
Prince Tawiah, Principal Systems Administrator of VRA, and Ms Felicity Dzordzorme, a graduate teacher at the Akosombo International School, took the students through the plenary session and phase two of the EVP respectively.
The EVP, Samuel Binifo, Headmaster of Tema Manhean Senior High Technical School, in his opening remarks, said would enable the students to believe in themselves and be disciplined as they developed.
He expressed the belief that students’ development was better moulded when they were privileged to have people holding responsible positions in their fields of expertise talk to them, most of whom do not know themselves.
“I would encourage you to learn from our guests, who have become who they are today through discipline, hard work, dedication and focus. If you will study hard and take their advice to you, you are likely to become like them,” Mr. Binifo told his students.
He thanked his guests for choosing his school out of the 46 second-cycle institutions in the Greater Accra Region for the 2023 EVP.
Samuel Fletcher, Community Relations Manager, VRA, after a brief highlight of the operations of the Authority, which, he said, included, first and foremost, generating and transmitting electricity to distribution companies for onward transmission to consumers, and with a vision of becoming a model of excellence for power distribution in Africa, explained the importance of the students to the VRA, “because you are one of our key stakeholders in our operational areas.”
Consequently, the EVP, he said, was initiated to take care of the VRA’s communities, “and once we have students living in our communities, we need to engage them through career guidance.”
Mr. Fletcher said Tema Manhean Senior High Technical School was the second school the EVP had been taken to in the Tema area after the Kpone Community Day School last year.
The next stop for the EVP is the Ahantaman Senior High School (SHS), Western Region, and, as part of the school’s upcoming anniversary, Mr. Fletcher said, his outfit had supported the school with prizes for the Best Student.
“This year, we will be visiting three schools. We are doing Tema today. We will go to our next school, which is Ahantaman SHS. Our third school will come later and we believe that our CSR programmes will benefit our students who are the future leaders of our country,” he told the media.
