As a follow-up to moving the Jerome Chandler
Science Resource Center to the newly-certified Axim All-Girls High School,
Headmistress Stella Adjei was presented with a laptop computer. It is outfitted
with a satellite modem, which provides internet access, as well as open-source office type software.
The laptop will be used for research, email, and
administrative purposes by Madame Stella and teachers.
Ghana Together thanks PACCAR Technical Center for the
generous gift of several laptops. These laptops make excellent “internet
machines.” Another of the laptops was presented earlier to Madame Mercy Ackah,
the Director of the Axim Public Library.
In the photo, James Kainyiah, Chairman of our partner
organization Western Heritage Home, conducts the “hand-over” to Madame Stella,
while the school’s accountant (whose name we unfortunately didn’t catch) witnesses
the ceremony.
We note that this formal procedure of “handing over”
items, responsibilities, etc. is an important part of the local culture. Even
rather simple transactions, such as this one, are customarily accompanied by a
simple but important and not casual ceremony marking the occasion.
Formal expressions by both the giver and receiver are exchanged, culminating in a handshake. It indicates publicly, with
witness, that responsibility has been formally passed from one person or entity
to another.
We have had the pleasure of meeting Madame Stella, who started her tenure with the AAGHS in January 2013. She has served the Ghana Education Service in several administrative positions in the Western Region. She expressed to us her excitement and energy for putting this new high school "on the map," as she put it. And so she will!
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