The
2001 graduating class of Opoku Ware School, known as AZ group per the school’s
unique numbering system, over the weekend handed over a landscape project to
the school to mark its silver jubilee of leaving the school.
This
followed the school’s 74th anniversary Speech and Prize-giving Day
held at the school’s Nana Joe Mensah Auditorium as part of an Akatakyie
Homecoming Weekend under the theme “Building Alumni Excellence: Honouring the
Past, Present and Future.” Other activities marking the
weekend included a student debate, a football tournament and a mentoring
session for the students of the school.
According
to the association’s Global President, Kat. Mike Adu-Domfeh (AB146), the
project was the final phase of a 5-year landscaping plan adopted by the
fraternity and started in 2022 by the AV group on the occasion of their 25th
anniversary of graduation, to help
beautify the school and create a conducive teaching and learning environment.
The project architect, Kat. Nana Agyemang
Cobbinah (AZ295), explained that the project, which cost the group
GHS500,000.00 covered grassing, planting of shady trees, construction of
semi-circular reinforced concrete seats to foster interaction or socializing,
construction of a laundry area with reinforced concrete seats and table, 10
standing pipes, 5 reinforced concrete scrub basins, floor drains, 600sqm area
of pavement blocks installation and the installation of kerbs to define
pedestrian walkways.
The
group’s president, Kat. George Wereko-Brobbey (AZ390), stated that his group members recognised and appreciated
the impact the school had made on their lives and that this silver jubilee
project was their way of giving back. “Further, even though we have been
actively connected through social media platforms, this was an opportunity to
actually come together from all over the world, celebrate each other and
reminsice over the good old days. It has been great fun”, he said.
The
headmaster of the school, Rev. Fr. Stephen Owusu Sekyere, thanked the AZ group
for their kind gesture, which he said had helped to make campus more beautiful
and attractive, and promised the group that the school will take good care of
the facilities for future generations of students.
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