Summer 2024 newsletter
Menstrual Hygiene Day in May 2024
Inspiring the next generation
Thanks to our generous donors, we have been able to expand the school to provide enhanced academic and boarding facilities. We are delighted that we are now able to offer five hundred students the enriching opportunities of Wioso Senior High School. Students like Sarah in Year Three, who came to the school in 2021. She developed a keen interest in science at primary and has been able to develop that passion and aptitude for science, especially hemistry at Wioso “I love chemistry! I love mixing the chemicals together to make reactions and seeing how they change!” she explains.
Sarah is clear that she wants to pursue this passion in
chemistry as a career: “When I leave school, I want to
study medicine and become a pharmaceutical scientist.
My ambition is develop new drugs that combine
traditional and scientific research to eradicate and treat
diseases”. At the school we strive to enable more
students like Sarah to fulfil their ambitions.
Gordon Sarpong, our Headteacher, is delighted to continue to inspire the next generation. However, he explains, the much-needed expansion to accommodate more students brings additional financial and running-cost pressures. We are now urgently fundraising for these additional costs to finance teacher & other staff salaries.These amazing staff are the means and inspiration to develop five hundred young people like Sarah to become scientists as well as vets, farmers, doctors and nurses, entrepreneurs and future teachers, achieving a diverse range of ambitions. That’s why we are launching our “inspire the next generation campaign”.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day
On 28th May 2024, Wioso Senior High School and the local community came together for World Menstrual Health Hygiene Day. With support from Alma Mater Education and the Toni Garrn Foundation, our girls and boys paraded through the local area to raise awareness, educating themselves, their peers and the community on the fundamental role good menstrual health hygiene plays in enabling girls and women to reach their full potential.
The campaign looked at good sanitation and hygiene, affordable menstrual hygiene materials and the development of a supportive environment, free from embarrassment. Students learned how to make sustainable hygiene products including reusable pads and pants, and this work will continue throughout the year in school and community projects, linking production and access to female hygiene products to livelihood and income generation.
We are now urgently fundraising for the running costs to cover the expansion in student numbers. Will you help us?
£110 would fund a teachers salary for a month, delivering 160 teaching hours and inspiring the minds of 500 students in Science, Maths or English
£260 would enable our Home Economics curriculum, providing food and cooking equipment, sewing machines and art materials to develop practical experience, life skills and artistic ability
£1,200 would provide a month’s food and cooking materials to feed all students three meals a day to enable their learning
Your support is vital in helping to inspire the next generation! Thank you
We would like to thank all our partners and donors, with special thanks to the following:
The Toni Garrn Foundation
BILD hilft ev Ein Herz für Kinder
John Yesudian at Grannies Kitchen
Rotary Hamburg
Caroline & Georges Muller
Q Charitable Trust
Tim Strate
Sandbrook House & Garden
Bielenberg Family Trust
Just Ghana