Accra-Ghana, Nov. 28, GNA – The 1998 year group of the Labone Old Students Association (LOSA’ 98) has handed over a 12-seater toilet facility to the Labone Secondary School as part of its 25th anniversary celebration.
The celebration, which was climaxed with a Thanksgiving service, saw members engaging in a health walk, prayer sessions, homecoming, and hosting the 52nd Speech and Prize Giving Day of the School.
Mrs. Juliet Naa Ameley Aryeequaye, the president of LOSA’98, told the Ghana News Agency that even though the year group had carried out some projects to support quality education in the school, they deemed it important to present a legacy project on their 25th anniversary.
Mrs. Aryeequaye said the washroom project, which had four hand washing basins, was selected to help maintain good hygiene among the students and prevent some illnesses, especially among the girls.
She added that the existing washroom facilities were not enough to properly serve the nature-call needs of the students, hence the need to provide more for the school.
She said education was a shared responsibility, noting that due to the free senior high school policy, enrolment in the school had increased, putting pressure on the existing facilities. Therefore, it was important that stakeholders, such as old student associations, help finance some of the needed projects.
Dr. Johnson Wilson Appiah Kubi, a research consultant and lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, who was the speaker for the occasion, encouraged students of the school to take their hard skill development very seriously.
Dr. Kubi, who is also a LOSA’98 member, said every subject and topic in their curriculum was designed to build and prepare them for their future, reminding them that reading and writing were important as one was required to read memos, instructions, letters, and many others when on the job.
He urged them to also take their numeracy seriously, stressing that “don’t leave the learning of mathematics to the science and business students; you will need them for the future.”
He said in addition, students must also cultivate some soft skills while in school, as they are important to their future success.
Soft skills, he noted, could be learnt even at home by cleaning the house, engaging in landscaping, and doing woodwork, among others, as they helped build confidence.
“These skills are as important as the hard skills; learn how to talk kindly to people; learn how to treat your coworkers well; you must start with how to respect your parents because you have to be humble to your boss when working; if you are having difficulties taking instructions from your teacher, how can you take instructions from your boss? he added.
