Ghana: VRA Holds Annual Volunteer Program At Chemu Senior High

The Volta River Authority (VRA), Ghana’s largest state-owned power generation company, held its annual employee volunteer program at Chemu Senior High Technical School in Tema Community 4.

This flagship program allows VRA staff to dedicate two working days to providing career guidance, counseling, and voluntary teaching at select senior high schools within VRA’s operational area.

Over 300 students attended this year’s event, which featured a Career Guidance ICT Boot Camp led by Prince Albert Tawiah, VRA’s Principal System Administrator.

Addressing the students, Mr. Samuel Fletcher, Acting Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Services at the Volta River Authority (VRA), advised them to discipline themselves and work towards developing their future careers.

Mr Fletcher reminded them they were in school to learn; therefore, “if it’s not about learning, then you have no business being in school.”

Mr. Fletcher stated that the programme was one of their corporate social responsibilities, adding that they believe that the students would have a better opportunity and make informed decisions about their future careers when they were engaged before completing school.

“We feel that opening these up and bringing them such education to complement what the teachers do will give the best opportunity to the children to make informed decisions going into the future,” he added.

He further said even though having 30 staff of the VRA out on the field to interact with the students was a lot of money, the authority believes in education, health, community interest activities, and the environment and was ready to therefore invest in them.

He further noted that providing such counselling would also help the students to be focused and get the chance to benefit from scholarships for tertiary students and become professionals to benefit the country.

He disclosed that since 2017, when the Employee Voluntary Programme commenced under its Community Development Programme, students from 26 schools across its operational regions have benefitted.

Mrs. Vincentia Kyere Anin-Agyei, headmistress of Chemu Senior High Technical School, commended the VRA for the initiative, noting that it would help in the students’ study as the new curriculum questions are mostly application-based.

Mrs. Anin-Agyei said, “It is important to give the students this kind of opportunity for them to learn outside the books; they should also have other engagements to broaden their knowledge.”

She appealed to the VRA and other institutions to help the school to acquire more computers to help the students have enough for practicals.

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