The Kwahu Professionals Network (KPN), a non-governmental organization, made up of well-trained indigenous Kwahu working-class professionals, have organized a one-day censorship education for girl-students in second-cycle schools in Kwahu.
The censorship education forms part of the celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, under the theme ‘Inspire Inclusion”, celebrated on March 8.
Addressing the students, some of the executive members of the KPN project took the students through a career guidance session and admonished the students to seek assistance from professionals before choosing a career profession in order not to become stagnant and a burden to their societies.
“Today, we’re doing this with you to make the best career decisions as you begin to enter the corporate world.
Ms. Diana Konadu, the Vice President of Kwahu Professionals Network, who spoke in an interview with Republic Press’s Andy Frimpong Manso said, the KPN Inspires, which was introduced in 2022 forms part of the celebration the International Women’s Day.
“This program is KPN inspires, we hold this initiative in Senior High Schools in Kwahu with the motive of grooming the students, censoring them in order for them to become useful to themselves and the society. We partner with Professionals such as engineers, lawyers, doctors and so forth to come together and boost their confidence while they prepare to enter the world. This initiative forms part of the International Women’s Day 2024 Celebration and as a Professional body, we decided to organise this program to recognize the potentials of women”, she said.
Ms. Konadu indicated that the KPN also mentor and pairs some of the students with the members of the network.
“Aside the censorship, we also mentor and pair some of the students with our members so they can groom them; for example as businesswomen, doctors etc. We started this initiative in 2022. We started off in 2022 at Nkwatia Secondary school and last year was Nkawkaw Secondary School. We want to hold it in every District or Municipality every year and we’ll do it every year”, she added.
The KPN inspires project is solely sponsored by KPN members as well as Kwahu Businesses and Individuals who do not entirely come from Kwahu, but however, supports the initiative due to its impact.
“The project is solely sponsored by KPN. If I say KPN, I mean our members. Kwahu businesses also sponsor us as well as non-Kwahu individuals who share in our visions for the school girls. This year, aside the individual donors, we had a couple of corporate sponsors such as Rock City Hotel, LifeMate Furniture, Ghana Publishing Company Limited, Visionary Books and Stationery Limited, Rainbow Trust Foundation, Saka Homes, Burgundy Homes, AJ Boateng Foundation, X Mineral Water, Ramafrique / Ramaplast, Elizabeth Akyaa Place, Deseret Hotel, 5K Pharmaceuticals, AFB Golden, Cinematics, Yopoo Clean Co. Ltd and Edge S&S
This year, thirteen schools participated in the KPN inspires, namely, Mpraeso SHS, Abetifi Technical, Nkwatia Presby SHS, Nkawkaw SHS, St. Dominic’s SHS, Abefiti Presby SHS, Asakraka Technical, St. Paul’s SHS, New Generation SHS, Fodoa SHS, Bepong SHS, Kwahu Ridge SHS and St. Joseph’s Technical.
The Vice President extended her appreciation to the Education directorate offices of Kwahu East, Kwahu West and Kwahu South respectively, for their immense support.
In addition to the already mentioned, there were a number of donations done by Kwahu Professionals Network. MPASS which was the host school for the event received a donation of about 400 books (text books, story books, etc) for their school library.
We gave out goody bags to each student participant at the event comprising of sanitary towels, exercise books and pens.
There was an inter-school debate competition and the school that was 1st was Abetifi Presby, 2nd position was MPASS and third was Abetifi Technical.
There was also an insure-school essay competition as well and the first position was St. Paul’s SHS, 2nd position was New Generation and third position was Bepong Senior High. About 300 books was donated to the libraries of the winning schools and all the participants of both competitions were given a package which was a backpack of goodies which included story books, motivational books, sanitary towels, hair and body cream, exercise books and pens.
All participants of the competitions were given certificates of participations as well. Food, drinks and water were shared for all who was at the program.
In all, we donated about 2500 packs of sanitary towels, 2500 exercise books, 1000 library books (text books, story books, research books, et Al.), 20 backpacks, 3000 pens, 1000 packs of food, water, drinks, among others.
I want to use this opportunity to thank everyone who made this program possible. A special thanks to the directors of the education directorates offices (Abetifi, Mpraeso, Nkawkaw), head teachers and teachers of participating schools, heady teacher and management of the host school MPASS, participating students, volunteers, donors, media partners and everyone.
The Kwahu Professionals Network began operation in 2018 and has embarked on a number of developmental projects.
The focus and the objectives of the KPN is to inspire the Indigenous Kwahu people and project the development of Kwahu land.
