Ho Poly gets new carpentry equipment
Carpentry equipment has been donated to the Ho Polytechnic.
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The equipment, valued at $400,000 was donated by the Chief Executive Officer of Cybele Energy Ghana Limited, a US-Ghanaian company, Mrs Beatrice Mensa-Tayui, as part of its corporate social responsibility.
The donation was facilitated by the African Global Sister Cities Foundation (AGSF), a non-governmental organisation.
The energy company is also collaborating with the polytechnic to establish Petroleum Engineering faculty beginning next academic year to train middle level technical hands to feed the petroleum industry in the country.
At a ceremony to unveil the equipment, the Deputy Volta Regional Minister, Mr Francis Ganyaglo, charged the polytechnic to make good use of the equipment urging management of the school to motivate the staff who would be in charge of the pieces of equipment to make the best out of their efforts.
He suggested that the equipment should not be put at the disposal of the school alone, but also the public to raise some funds for its maintenance.
Mr Ganyaglo again advised the staff and students to restrategise as the institution would soon be among those polytechnics that would be turned into technical universities so as to compete favourably with other instituions.
The President Chair of African Global Sister-Cities Foundation, Mr Kwame Kludjeson, disclosed that the Ho Polytechnic would connect to the Pulaski Technical College of Arkansas while the University of Health and Allied Sciences, also based in Ho, would be connected to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, both in the United States of America, under the sister-city arrangement with exchange programmes for both teaching staff and students after the agreements had been signed.
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The Rector of the Polytecnic, Professor Emmanuel Massapequa Kodzo Sekyi, expressed his gratitude for the gesture and challenged the Department of Engineering to change its attitude towards work in order to motivate students and make them practically oriented persons who would not be found wanting upon the completion of their courses.
He disclosed that the donation had raised the status of the polytechnic because they had not had such modern equipment since the school was established.