Krobo Girls SHS gets new block and offices

A freshly constructed block has been given to the Krobo Girls Presbyterian Senior High School in Lower Manya to house the department's classrooms and offices.

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation Foundation (GNPC) made the act of kindness possible.


The foundation spent around GHC1.7M on the new building, which was started in 2019 and includes furniture and other equipment.

The school's Headmistress, Bernice Noel Mensah-Akutteh, said that management appealed with GNPC to convert the original Science Block into a block for the Home Economics students due to a lack of classroom space.

Board Chairman of the GNPC Freddy Blay announced the project's commissioning and stated that the GNPC put aside a portion of its budget to fund infrastructure initiatives.
Freddy Blay, who was born in 2017, justified the financial commitments into social impacts activities.


According to him, although the core mandate of GNPC is to explore for oil resources, oil itself all over the world sometimes creates problems for some communities because people fight over it. “Government is bent on ensuring that it is spread across the country. A lot of request have come but sometimes we need to select out of these requests. The region have benefited a lot, drilling bore- holes, and sanitation infrastructure and classroom blocks”.


The Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr Dominic Aduah, said GNPC is doing a lot through several models in the area of scholarships and training.
“ GNPC Foundation is in to impact lives. One that I can talk of is scholarship. We have done about 6,000 local scholarship in the tertiary.


This year we are about to handover 1,500 local scholarships”.


“Aside that we also have community empowerment project where we pick the youth from the streets and we give them skills, they then write the NVTI examinations after completion we take them through graduation and we give them requisite tools for them to train others”.