It also comes with a fully furnished bungalow for the housemistress to enhance supervision and discipline.

The project is part of the $10-million package embarked on by Tullow Ghana Ltd, the lead operator of the Jubilee and TEN offshore oil and gas operations, to support the government's drive towards improved  educational infrastructure in support of the free senior high school policy.

So far, schools that benefited from the projects include Nsein SHS near Axim, Axim Girls SHS, Sankor SHS, in Ahanta West, Bonzo-Kaku SHS, Kikam Technical in Ellembelle, Takoradi SHS in Sekondi-Takoradi, Annor Adjaye SHS in Jomoro in the Western Region, and the Nsutaman SHS in the Ashanti Region.

The main dormitory block

Other schools being constructed include Bompe SHS and Shama SHS which will soon be handed over to beneficiary schools among others.

The Nyong Technical Institute in the Karaga District of the Northern Region has also benefited from a multi-purpose workshop block with five fully furnished apartments for electrical, welding, catering, tailoring and woodwork which will soon be handed over to the institute.

In a speech read on her behalf at the handover ceremony at Kansaworodu, the Deputy Managing Director of Tullow Ghana, Cynthia Lumor, said the company considered the inauguration of the facility as an opportunity to reaffirm its commitment to the people of its host country.

“For an organisation like Tullow Ghana — with a direct stake in this country’s socio-economic development — we consider platforms like this as opportunities to extend and entrench our commitment to the local communities where we live and work,” she said.

The deputy managing director said Tullow’s work in the country was directly connected to a shared prosperity agenda to ensure that the communities where they operated enjoyed the returns generated from its business.

“This is very important because it means that our interventions can generate and develop better livelihoods and quality of life for the local communities,” Ms Lumor added.

“In line with this, we actively engage in socio-economic investments that, over the years, have prioritised investment in STEM education as a driver of growth and prosperity”.

Ms Lumor recalled that in 2019, the company committed to invest $10 million over five years in infrastructure for 15 senior high schools in support of quality education for all Ghanaians.

This commitment, she said, had so far yielded great dividends with the building and inauguration of 12 dormitories, classrooms and workshop blocks for 12 senior high schools in the Western, Ashanti and Northern regions.

The future 

“Today, I am happy to announce that we are here to inaugurate another of such dormitory blocks, here in Kansaworado within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, which will benefit over 180 girls in this community,” Ms Lumor said.

The Headmistress of the Methodist Senior High School, Grace Eshun, commended the company for the fulfilment of its promise to the school, saying, “I can assure you that the facility will be well maintained.”

The acting President of the Sekondi Traditional Council, Nana Barima Ekow Gyesa II, urged beneficiaries to ensure that the facility was always clean.