Employees of the Volta River Authority (VRA) have held a two-day career talk programme for the students of the Tema Manhean Senior High Technical School in the school.
The educative programme, which is aimed at helping the beneficiaries to know who they are and to further prepare them for their future careers, is part of the Employee Volunteer Programme (EVP) of VRA, Ghana’s largest power generation company.
The mentors took the students through tailored sessions which included Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Mental Health, Career Guidance and ICT Boot all in a bid to help to contribute to the beneficiaries’ future development.
Prince Tawiah, the Principal Systems Administrator of VRA, and Ms. Felicity Dzordzorme, a graduate teacher at the Akosombo International School, took the students through the plenary session and phase two of the EVP respectively.
The EVP, Samuel Binifo, the Headmaster of Tema Manhean Senior High Technical School, in his opening remarks, said would enable the students to believe in themselves and be disciplined as they develop.
He expressed the belief that students’ development is better moulded when they are privileged to have people holding responsible positions in their fields of expertise talk to students most of whom do not know themselves.
“I would encourage you to learn from our guests who have become who they are today through discipline, hard work, dedication and focus. If you will study hard and take their advice to you, you are likely to become like them,” Mr. Binifo told his students.
He thanked his guests for choosing his school out of the 46 second-cycle institutions in the Greater Accra Region for the 2023 EVP.
Samuel Fletcher, the Community Relations Manager, VRA, after a brief highlight of the operations of VRA which he said included, generating electricity for onward transmission and distribution to consumers and with a vision of becoming a model of excellence for power generation in Africa, explained the importance of the students to VRA “because you are one of our key stakeholders in our operational areas.”
Consequently, the EVP, he said was initiated to take care of VRA’s communities “and once we have students living in our communities, we need to engage them through career guidance.”
Mr. Fletcher said Tema Manhean Senior High Technical School was the second school the EVP had been taken to in the Tema area after the Kpone Community Day School last year.
The next stop for the EVP is the Ahantaman SHS, Western Region, and as part of the school’s upcoming anniversary, Mr. Fletcher said his outfit had supported the Ahantaman SHS with prizes for the best student.
“This year, we will be visiting three schools. We are doing Tema today. We will go to our next school, which is Ahantaman SHS. Our third school will come later and we believe that our CSR programmes will benefit our students who are the future leaders of our country,” he told the media in an interview.
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