The 1999 class of Yaa Asantewaa Senior High School has renovated the library of their alma mater to a contemporary fully-air-conditioned electronic library (e-library) to enhance learning in the school.
The said year group stocked the e-library with storybooks and computers to enhance reading culture and research amongst the students in the school.
The homecoming ceremony was also marked with a mentorship programme to help the students stay focus and climb higher academic ladder.
Addressing the students at the school’s assembly hall, Mrs. Esther Obeng-Dapaah, the president of the 1999 YASHS old girls, revealed to the students that they were at YASHS a little over 20 years ago.
According to Obeng-Dapaah, the experience they endured at YASHS was a unique one , which has helped them to become who they are in society today.
In a homecoming event codenamed: “ Inspiring our future through reading. ”, president Obeng-Dapaah told the students that, it was through reading that people get to know the world.
She added that reading helps in broadening the minds of individuals.
Dr. Doris Akyere Boateng, a lecturer at the University of Ghana, told the students they believe in the power of education, so they thought why don’t they come and refurbish the library of their alma mater.
Akyere Boateng, indicated there were a number of their year group colleagues, who could not joined them to commissioned the refurbishment of the e-library. She urged the students to use the library for its intended purpose.
The headmistress of the school, Ms. Asunade Eshun-Famiyeh , lauded the 1999 year group of YASHS for renovating the library of their alma mater to a contemporary one.
According to Eshun-Famiyeh, most schools are now counting on their old students to help them, adding that the educational needs of YASHS keep multiplying, so aid from old students is imperative in the development of the school.
In this regard, she called on the YASHS old students in Ghana and the diaspora to come to their aid.
Headmistress Eshun-Famiyeh, who was full beaming with smiles noted to the old students that, the school has changed, but the values remain unchangeable.
Commenting on the refurbishment of the school’s library, she hailed the 1999 year group for cleaning, painting, supplying, provision of computers and hooking the facility to the internet.
She mentioned the renovation of the school’s administration block, washrooms, donation of microphones to the school as some of the kind gestures by some year groups to help in the running of their alma mature.
Ms.Asunade Eshun-Famiyeh lauded the year group for their refurbishing the library, stressing that library is very important in the lives of students since it helps in acquiring knowledge and building of vocabulary and thereby helping them to use words effectively.
Touching on the importance of the library , the headmistress of Yaa Asantewaa stated that, library will help the students to be creative and innovative.
She urged the students to use the library for its intended purposes.
Whilst she expressed her appreciation to the efforts of old students for attending to the need of the school, the head of the school urged them to factor teachers of the school when attending to the needs of the school.
This, she appealed to the old students to organise capacity building programmes such as symposiums, workshop and others to the teachers.
Eshun-Famiyeh also appealed for a mentorship programme for the school. She urged the students to go the library and learn, stressing that anybody who abuses the internet would be reprimanded severely.
After the commissioning of the facility, Oheneyere Konama Agyapong, the main library prefect of YASHS, who granted an interview to the media, explained that, the e-library will help the students a lot, because gone are the days when people refer to only books for knowledge.
According to Oheneyere Konama, today, knowledge comes in diverse forms and most of the knowledge are on the internet, so they are grateful to the 1999 old girls, who have found the need to give us a well refurbish library stocked with computers and storybooks,
This she continued, will help them to get information at the snap of their fingers.
