JASICO RAISES FUNDS IN AID OF STAFF BUNGALOWS (PAGE 21)

THE Jasikan College of Education (JASICO) has realised GH¢5,000 at a fund-raising rally in aid of development projects.
The college has targeted GH¢25,000 to start the construction of staff bungalows.
Due to shortage of staff accommodation, only 17 of the tutors are currently living on campus.
At the rally, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of JASICO, Nana Oware Owusu IV, expressed gratitude to the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the college for the projects it had undertaken in the institution.
He said in 1994, the SRC raised a platform at the dining hall and a podium while the 1995 year group also bought a mower with the 1996 group providing the college with a corn mill.
According to him, the 1997 year group provided a public address system, 98 water tanks, 99 plastic chairs and a 21-inch television set for the staff common room of the college while the 2002 group donated a set of Agbadza drums, among other things, to the institution.
Nana Owusu stated that the SRC of 2003 provided a television set to the college, the 2004 group also donated water tanks while the 2005 SRC started walling the campus with the 2006 group providing five double canopies and a computer.
The Board Chairman added that the SRC of 2007 donated 200 plastic chairs and a generator for the college.
The Principal of the college, Mr Gabriel Wotodzor, said as a measure of solving part of the accommodation problem, the students had completed one bungalow and they were constructing another.
He appealed to old students and the college’s Parent-Teacher Association to contribute in cash and in kind towards the institution’s development.
The Jasikan District Director of Education, Mr P.M.K. Afesi, expressed concern about the poor results of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the district.