Amenfiman Rural Bank supports Asankragwa SHS

The Amenfiman Rural Bank Limited has constructed and handed over a 14-seater water closet facility to the Asankragwa Senior High School at Asankragwa in the Amenfi West Municipality in the Western Region.

The facility has brought great relief to the management of the school after many years without a decent sanitation structure.

The construction was done as part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities which coincided with the school’s 60th anniversary launch.

At a short but colourful ceremony to hand over the project to the school authorities, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank, Mr Edmund Afful, acknowledged the commitment of the bank to offer such community support to the school.

People

He said the bank was owned by the people, so it was important that part of the profit was committed to developing the communities within the operational areas, while also empowering the people, particularly the youth.

Mr Afful, however, entreated the school to endeavour to maintain the facility to benefit all.

He observed that the bank envisaged to do more for the people, but would be encouraged by the way the projects they undertook were maintained by the communities.

Head

The Headmaster of Asankragwa SHS, Mr Victor Yanney, expressed gratitude to the bank for the project, and noted that everything possible would be done to maintain the facility for the benefit of both the current and future students.

He expressed his profound gratitude to the board for taking such an initiative to support the school, particularly when the school was celebrating its 60th anniversary.

The project is fitted with a reliable standby water tank to help realise the global efforts to encourage good and sustainable environmental practices in order to have a healthy ecosystem.

Addressing teachers and students at the launch of the school’s 60th anniversary celebration, the CEO of Amenfiman Rural Bank Limited, Dr Alexander Asmah, who is an old student of the institution, said the school had had major infrastructure challenges over the past few years.

He particularly mentioned the abandoned assembly hall complex and dining hall, staffing, encroachment and securing the boundaries of the school as some of the most pressing issues needing attention.

Dr Asmah advised the authorities of the school to be abreast of the growing trends in teaching and learning such as the use of robotics and computing as well as exposing the students to these global trends because they were not only competing with their peers locally but those around the world.

He further called on his fellow old students, both home and abroad, to put their collective skills and resources together to build their alma mater — Asanco.