Most Rev. Peter Paul Angkyier, Bishop of Damongo Diocese, has called on parents and guardians to contribute towards the development of educational institutions established by the Church.
He made the call at the Tenth Anniversary celebration of Morning Star Academy at the premise of the Sisters of Notre Dame Convert, Managers of the School at Damongo.
The anniversary celebration was on the theme: Holistic Early Childhood Education, the Case of Morning Star Academy.
The Bishop stressed the need for parents and others to support the School financially to improve on its infrastructure, academic and general life activities of the pupils.
He urged parents and members of the community around the Academy to develop a strong foundation for their children since the school offered special programmes for the children’s academic development.
Bishop Angkyier said the Church, in preaching the Good News “also seeks to develop the human resource of the society where it operates, because any development that the Church undertakes is for the common good of the people”.
He noted that the School was established in 2006 under the leadership of the then Bishop, Most Rev. Philip Naameh, now the Archbishop of Tamale with support from the Catholic Universal Solidarity Fund (CUSF).
Bishop Angkyier stated that since the creation of the Diocese in 1995, it had undertaken a lot of educational infrastructural projects in the area of Kindergartens, Vocational and Technical, Primary, Junior and Senior High Schools.
He said, it had also established a Girls Boarding House facility to provide accommodation for girls from deprived and far places as well as enhance girl-child education and retain girls in school.
The Headmistress of the School, Rev. Sr. Perpetua N’doda, thanked parents and other stakeholders for their various roles in the development of the School.
The Chairperson for the occasion, Mrs. Gabriella Wumnaya, a retired Educationist and a former Headmistress of St. Anne’s Girl’s Senior High School (SAGHIS), Damongo, encouraged parents to invest in their wards education.
The Academy, which started with 30 pupils and a Teacher, currently has a pupil-population of 135, five Classrooms and six teachers.
Present were Msgr. Augustine Towoni, Vicar General of the Diocese, Rev. Fr. William Dun-Dery, Financial Administrator; Rev. Fr. Paul Kasu, Director, Catholic Education Unit; Rev. Fr. Felix Kuulare and Matthew Zaabelle, Director of Damongo DEPSOCOM.
