Tema Methodist Day SHS 94 year group inaugurates educational fund for alma-mata
The Old Student Association of the Tema Methodist Day School (MEDASS) – M94 has inaugurated an educational fund to support brilliant students of the school who are in need of financial assistance, to mark 20 years after school.
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The fund has been instituted as part of the group’s contribution to the development of the school by giving an opportunity to every child who requires the needed support to achieve their dreams.
In her speech to unveil the Rev. Dr. John K. Bassaw Education Fund, Ms. Suard Sesay, President of the 1994 Old Students of Tema Methodist Day Senior High School, M94 , expressed the important role the fund will play in helping students of the school pursue their educational ambitions. She also used the opportunity to advise the students of the school to seek realistic life goals that are achievable and time bound".
“We believe this widow’s mite of ours will go a long way to facilitate the progress of many students who would otherwise have dropped out or suffered academically because they are financially handicapped”, she said.
Rev. Dr. John K. Bassaw of blessed memory is a former headmaster of the school who played an influential role in the lives of many students who passed through the school by instilling in the discipline to focus on building themselves to serve the country.
She also used the opportunity to advice the students of the school to seek realistic life goals that are achievable and time bound.
In a fund raising ceremony for the fund, the old students managed to raise an amount of GHC20,000.00 as start up for the educational fund. This amount was raised by members of the M94 in Ghana, US and UK respectively.
The Headmaster, Rev. John Kwaw Donkoh of the school congratulated the group on their initiative and urged them to continuously give support to the under privileged.
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Other members of the group during an interaction section with the students also shared their life experiences with the students to encourage them in their life pursuits and dreams.
The M94 Year Group also donated Glucometer, Nebulizer Machine and a Toddlers Scale to the Children’s Ward of the Tema General Hospital to the tune of GHC500.00 as part of its 20th Anniversary activities.
Receiving the items on behalf of the Hospital, Senior Nursing Officer, Kokui D. Klutse, thanked members of M94 for this laudable initiative and encouraged others to emulate the gesture.
The M94 Group was officially inaugurated in a thanksgiving service at Immanuel Methodist Church in Tema.