Tullow Ghana’s $10 million investment in free SHS infrastsructure projects on course

Nothing better expresses the satisfaction of a people than the joyful faces of happy children parading to their new school buildings with the assurance of a better future, guaranteed by the benevolence of a company in their community. That is the story of the children at the Nsein Senior High School.

Today, 21st June 2021, Tullow Ghana jointly commissions the new ultramodern dormitory block for the students of Nsein Senior High School under the Tullow Free SHS project. Paramount Chief of Nsein Traditional Area, Awulae Agyefi Kwame II, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Minister for Energy and Member of Parliament for Manhyia South Constituency and Al-Monthiry, Managing Director of Tullow Ghana, jointly commissioned the 16-unit new dormitory block at Nsein Senior High School.

In 2018, Tullow Ghana made a $10 million investment to build senior high school infrastructure to support the government’s policy of providing free quality senior high school education for Ghanaian children. This year, Tullow Ghana realized a part of that commitment with the completion of the 16-unit new dormitory block at Nsein Senior High School which has the capacity to accommodate 400 students.

Shared prosperity remains a central philosophy for Tullow and it underpins its approach to sustainable Socio-Economic Investment in Ghana. In line with our Shared Prosperity philosophy, we aspire to share the benefits of our business with our host country and communities in a way that allows them to generate and develop better livelihoods and improve the quality of their lives.

The pursuit of this philosophy led Tullow Ghana to commit to construct across the country 15-purpose built infrastructure in support of the government’s free SHS policy.

Tullow Ghana will continue to work with the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education, as we have done since 2019 when we jointly selected and earmarked projects for construction in the Ashanti, Bono, Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Northern and Western Regions, focusing on schools which have the most urgent need to accommodate qualifier SHS students.

Tullow is hopeful that the completion of the six (6) classroom blocks and nine (9) dormitory blocks within the FSHS project scope will contribute significantly towards the GES attainment of its target increasing the enrolment rate of rural poor Junior High School (JHS) graduates accessing SHS as well as the other milestones of improving the Ghana pass rates in Science and Math in the West African Examination Council Examination (WASSCE) and improved girl-child education.

The development of education in Ghana has been central to Tullow Ghana’s efforts since its operations commenced in Ghana in 2007 and will remain a focus as we implement our 10-year Value Maximization Plan.

Currently, Tullow’s education initiatives are implemented in-country, from Basic through Secondary to Tertiary levels with a focus on developing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Mfantsipim Secondary School at Cape Coast in the Central Region, Prempeh College and Asuansi Technical School in the Ashanti Region, Accra Academy and Achimota Secondary School in the Greater Accra Region, are second cycle schools that have benefitted from Tullow’s ‘Science in School initiative.’

These beneficiary schools have had their science laboratories either built or refurbished to enhance the teaching and learning of the sciences.