UNICEF Ghana Visits Donkorkrom Holy Rosary School

A team from the United Nations International Children's Emmergency Fund (UNICEF), Ghana recently visited Holy Rosary School in Asikasu in the Donkorkrom Vicariate to evaluate the impact of the Leadership trainings organised by UNICEF. The purpose of the visit as stated by Mr. Tillman Guenther, a German – born Education Specialist with UNICEF Ghana, who led the team, was to ascertain the impacts of the Leadership trainings attended by the school representatives on the school community. The team was impressed with what they witnessed in Holy Rosary School: “We are happy to see that there are good results in terms of club activities,” Mr. Guenther affirmed. “We witnessed this morning the Club on Child Protection; it was quite insightful to see the awareness of the club members on Rights of the Child, as well as different aspects of Child Abuse, and what can be done on these aspects,” he continued. The two main Holy Rosary School clubs visited by the UNICEF Team were the Creativity and Innovation, and the Child Protection Clubs. The children in the two clubs did some presentations, showcasing some of the skills and talents learnt from the training sessions. What they shared with the guests cut across Children's Rights and responsibilities and various forms of abuse that a child could be subjected to, and what they could do when they fall victim. As part of the visit, Sr. Stella Nwosu, MSHR, Headmistress of Holy Rosary School took the visitors on a tour round the school compound; they expressed amazement at the sight: “We are happy to have paid this visit today,” their leader said. In the recent past, UNICEF Ghana, in partnership with the Ghana Education Service had organised a series of Leadership Trainings for Prefects and club leaders of various schools in the Kwahu Afram Plains, to which Holy Rosary School was a beneficiary. In a brief interview with Mr. Guenther, he intimated that the training of selected students from the various schools in the Afram Plains on Leadership Skills is one of the more than forty activities carried out by UNICEF, in partnership with the Ghana Education Service in a project known as Jacobs Foundation founded in Switzerland. He also underlined that although UNICEF works mainly with Public Schools, they also try to include Private Schools as much as possible: “UNICEF mainly works with Public Schools, but as we are looking at this project at a kind of all-community approach, and Private Schools as they are present here in the Afram Plains, we try to also include them as much as we can in the trainings," he said. From Sr. Sylvie Lum Cho, MSHR (DEPSOCOM, Donkorkrom Apostolic Vicariate)