Needy students of the Bolgatanga Girls Secondary School (BOGISS) are to benefit from a ¢100 million scholarship award fund.

The fund, according to the administrator of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), Mr. Mensah Banahene, has already paid an initial amount of ¢61.5 million to the authorities of BOGISS. Mr. Banahene who performed the inauguration of the fund at a brief ceremony at Bolgatanga explained that the decision to institute the scheme was necessitated by an earlier visit to the school last year where he found that most of the girls were being denied secondary education owing to the inability of the parents and guardians to pay their school fees.
"The institution of the scholarship fund for BOGISS is my personal contribution to ensure that all girls have access to education," he said, adding that, beginning from September 2006, the scheme would take off in earnest to ameliorate the plight of needy girls.

The Administrator used the opportunity to inspect a ¢5.6 billion GETFund 3-storey dormitory block and a ¢1.1 billion fence wall which are under construction at the school.

Source: Kwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Bolgatanga