- Oil and gas production company, Kosmos Energy Ghana, has refurbished the boys’ dormitory of the Ashanti School for the Deaf at Jamasi in the Sekyere-South District in the Ashanti Region.
- He said the move formed part of its corporate response to the lingering effects of COVID-19 and external factors that had hurt the most vulnerable members of society.
Oil and gas production company, Kosmos Energy Ghana, has refurbished the boys’ dormitory of the Ashanti School for the Deaf at Jamasi in the Sekyere-South District in the Ashanti Region. The 300-bed capacity make-over dormitory will provide decent accommodation for almost all the 318 male students, who form more than half of the student population. The school was established more than 45 years ago with nine pupils, two teachers, and 12 non-teaching staff currently has a student population of 608 pupils made up of 290 females and 318 males, and 122 staff, including 60 non-teaching members. Until its renovation, the block, one of the oldest buildings on the premises, had never seen any facelift.
At the handover ceremony at Jamasi yesterday, the Senior Vice-President and Head of the Ghana Business Unit at Kosmos Energy Ghana, Joe Mensah, said it was the belief of the company that its support would enhance the efforts of the government and the Parent-Teacher Association to create the perfect ambience for a social, academic world. The facility has bungalows for the housemaster and housemother, a bathhouse, a laundry area, and electrical fixtures and fittings, among others. The school operates five departments: kindergarten, primary, junior high school, vocation and blind units.
Mr Mensah said, “As a good corporate citizen, we are pleased that our resolve to support the special school and that of the Ashanti School will help more than 300 male students of the school and lead to the stimulation of the desire of the beneficiaries to excel in their education.” He said the move formed part of its corporate response to the lingering effects of COVID-19 and external factors that had hurt the most vulnerable members of society. For the company’s commitment to the four state schools for students with special needs, the Ashanti School for the Deaf, he said, was the second of the schools to benefit from its humanitarian relief programme after the Savelugu School for the Deaf last year.