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Gold Fields Ghana Foundation inaugurates HuniVass girls’ dormitory
Divisional Chief of Bosomtwe, Nana Kwabena Amponsah IV and other dignitaries
cutting the tape to inaugurate the new girls dormitory
Abosso Goldfields Limited (AGL) through Gold Fields Ghana Foundation (GFGF), has inaugurated a 350–bed girls’ dormitory to improve accommodation at Huni Valley Senior High School (HUNIVASS) in the Western Region.
Initiated in 2019, the $980,000 two-storey block was executed by Boison Construction Limited in three years.
The scope of work included four teachers’ apartments with guest rooms, washrooms, double – decker beds, terrazzo floors, ironing rooms, a borehole, storage tank and landscaping.
In her keynote address, Prof. Elsie Effah Kaufmann of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon, and the Quiz Mistress of the National Mathematics and Science Quiz (NMSQ) stressed the importance of investing in the education.
Prof. Kaufmann, said education ensured people were capable and useful to themselves, families, communities and nations.
She said she was passionate about education since it produced knowledgeable people who could solve problems and work together to ensure the development of the country.
Prof. Kaufmann said women provided distinctive viewpoints in decision- making, solved complex problems, provided better solutions and better ideas.”
“We have to work together to get solutions to our problems. We cannot afford to leave the young ladies behind. When we do so we do it at our own risk.” she stated.
She praised the 65 percent enrolment of females at HUNIVASS and encouraged the girls to study hard and justify the investment made in them.
Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Gold Fields West Africa, Mr Joshua Mortoti, said GFGF had improved health and education service delivery in the two municipalities of Tarkwa -Nsuaem and Prestea- Huni Valley.
He said the Foundation had invested about US$9.5million in education for the Tarkwa and Damang host communities.
Mr Mortoti said, GFGF investments in the dormitory was to help tackle the accommodation deficit for girls at HUNIVASS and also reduce the number of female students who resided in off-campus.
One of Gold Fields’ Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) targets, Mr Mortoti revealed, was to increase the percentage of women on its area of operation to 30 percent by 2030.
Western Regional Minister, Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, thanked GFGF for the support and urged the students to study hard and be guided by the exploits of Prof. Kaufmann to become responsible citizens of Ghana.
From Clement Adzei Boye, Huni Valley