Category: Ghana

The inter-schools sports competition hosted at  St. Charles Lwanga JHS, the school geographically closest to the library, had a very positive impact on our attendance this week. From Monday to Thursday, the library saw a continuous flow of students from various junior  high and primary schools in the Sumbrungu area. Many students came to the library to study in the hours before their events, while others used it as a quiet place to rest after matches. On the afternoon of Thursday, we were honored to host Mr. Francis Abanga, a student from the Bolgatanga Technical University. Mr. Abanga, upon seeing the large number of students, offered to share a few words. He engaged the students in an informal session, offering words of advice and encouragement. He spoke on the importance of balancing academics with extracurricular activities, setting career goals early, and the value of using community resources like the library to achieve academic success. The students were attentive and engaged, asking questions at the end of the session. His status as a relatable, successful young adult from the region made his message particularly impactful.

Group reading took place in Gowrie kunkua community library with a common story book which is entitled Ananse and his red piggy bank written by Kwesi Enos. In the story Ananse grew up in a poor family but he doesn’t know how to make it in life, one day he was made his way to the forest looking for food and he met the Queen bee who was on her way to sell a basket full of honey, in conversation Ananse asked the bee to teach him how never to be short of food and the bee agreed to teach him her four secret lessons of how never to be short of food, the first lesson was hard work, the second was to be smart, the third lesson was saving and the last one was investing. Ananse agreed to follow all the lesson learned from the bee and became the richest man in their village, which indicated that in life working hard, working smart, saving and investing is a key to success.