Scholarship Girls
Update 2019
Here is a summary of post secondary scholarship students:
- Aloysita - doctor at Tamale Teaching Hospital
- Sophia - lecturer at Sunyani University
- Alfreda - graduate in Electrical Engineering working for VRA
- Janet - nurse at Mampong Hospital
- Anita - attending Earth University, Costa Rica
- Charity - teacher
- Sahada - graduate of Midwifery and Nursing College
- Augustina - graduate in Nursing
- Rose - graduate in Nursing
- Salima - nurse working in Damongo
- Anne - doing National Service in Takoradi
- Rashida - graduate in Accounting
- Aliatu - teaching in Damongo
- Ernestina - National Service at Tamale Teaching Hospital
- Ayishetu - doing National Service at Bole
- Edith - doing National Service at Techiman
- Shafawu - upgrading Nursing to Midwifery
- Monica - doing National Service at Buipe
- Abigail - mother
- Lydia - teacher
- Agnes - graduate in Agriculture, doing National Service
- Roselyn - final year Business Education
- Sakina - final year Basic Education
- Nafisah - final year Business Administration
- Lawuratu - final year Agriculture
- Sumaya - final year Nursing
- Elizabeth - final year Nursing
- Alimatu - second year Home Economics
- Awulatu - first year Teacher Training
- Hadija - first year Computer Science
- Adijata - first year Community Nutrition
- Rahinatu - second year Community Nutrition
- Rebecca - second year Biomedical Science
- Rashida - first year Nursing
- Nimatu - first year Management Studies
Sophia admires the bracelet she received from here sponsor Sara in celebration of completing a Masters Degree
Rashida has completed a four year accounting program at University of Developmental Studies and is now doing National Service.
Agnes and Monica have joined Anita in the study of sustainable tropical agriculture.
The post secondary gradutes have funded a vocational program to assist high school grauates who were unable to get a post secondary placement. Three girls apprenticed as shoe makers for two years and in the summer of 2018 started their own operation. Below is opening day at the workshop/store in Damongo. Congratulations GIRLS!
Update 2017
We are pleased to announce that several more of our scholarship girls have completed post secondary education. Aloysita is now practicing medicine, Alfreda is now working for the Ghana government in electrical production/transmission, and Sophia has graduated with a Masters degree in Accounting. Several of the girls are now doing national service. Four girls are in their final year - Edith, Ayishetu, Agnes and Monica, while Roselyn, Nafisa and Elizabeth have one more year remaining. Three girls have completed a vocational training program in the manufacturing of shoes.
One important development is that several post secondary students and graduates have become junior mentors for other girls just starting post secondary education. They include Ayishetu, Rashida, Edith,Sule, Mary and Evelyn Lydia, and Roselyn, and TFS Africa thanks them for their service to their sisters.
Anita is presently studying in Costa Rica, the recipient of a four year fully paid scholarship to EARTH University, an agriculturally focused campus which does research and development of tropical agricultural. On top of her usual studies, she has now learned Spanish! We wish all our girls well in their ongoing studies.
We are pleased that more girls continue to get placements in post secondary institutions. Five have gotten post secondary placements in 2014-15: four in nursing, and the fifth is becoming a teacher. This brings the total to 18 post secondary girls with another having announced that she has placement in September 2015, bringing the total to 19.
TFS-Africa Fdn. post secondary scholarship girls, June, 2015
Tools for Schools Africa Foundation pays for the tuition, books, uniforms and incidental expenses of the girls during junior and senior high. Once the girls have been accepted into a post secondary institution, we look for individuals or families willing to 'adopt' them during their post secondary years. The sponsors know the name of the girl, the institution she is attending and have the option of corresponding with her. The girl writes back to let the sponsor know of her accomplishments and her gratitude for assistance. A scholarship at the post secondary level averages between $US 1,000 and $US 1,600 a year, depending on the institution and the course of studies. In the past we have paid as much as $US 4,000, but the cedi is devaluing so rapidly that our money is worth more every year, so the cost of supporting a girl is actually decreasing. If you may be interested in supporting, or partially supporting the education of a girl, please contact us.
Our scholarship program began in 2009 with twelve girls at the high school level. In 2010 it expanded at the high school level and also included some junior high girls. Now over 70 girls are sponsored at five junior high and high schools in Damongo: Ndewura Jakpa Senior High/Technical School (NDESCO); St. Anne's Girls Senior Secondary School (SAGISS); Damongo Senior Secondary (DASS); St. Anne's Girls Boarding House (BH); and Presby Primary and Junior High (Presby). We have about fifteen girls who have graduated from high school and are waiting for placement in post secondary institutions. Two of those girls, Augustina and Anne, have been hired by us as part time librarians at the new facility we built this year. Paying these girls a small honorarium each week will allow students from other schools to visit and enjoy the library after regular school hours.
As well, we now support twelve girls in Post Secondary Education: Aloysita in fourth year medicine, Alfreda in fourth year electrical engineering (and top of her class of 128, the only female); Sophia in accounting and business management (and on the Dean's list at the Catholic University of Sunyani); Lydia now practice teaching after finishing education; Janet in second year nursing; Shafawu in second year community health; Anita in first year landscape design; Rashida in first year accounting; Charity in first year general studies, Sahada in first year nursing; and Aliyatu in first year science heading toward a degree in pharmacy. Our newsest scholarship girl is Abigail, who has started first year nursing. We are very proud of the accomplishments of all these girls, and we hope many more will continue to follow their lead into post secondary education.
Accountability
Throughout the year the girls forward exam results to us and to their sponsors. Here are marks recently received from Alfreda, in electrical engineering.
Appreciation
Comments like the following are often received from the girls
February 11, 2014
Once upon a time, there lived brilliant but needy girls who had dreams of becoming prominent people in life. But due to financial constraints,their hopes of furthering their education came to a standstill. When all hopes were thought to have been lost, there comes TOOL FOR SCHOOLS AFRICA FOUNDATION beaming with hope to the hopeless. Smiles were on the faces of these hardworking girls of Ghana.
Words can,t express our joy and gratitude to TOOL FOR SCHOOLS AFRICA FOUNDATION for the help and support given to us. In fact, we had no hopes of furthering our education but by the grace of the almighty God, you lifted our hopes very high. May God continue to bless and promote TOOL FOR SCHOOLS AFRICA FOUNDATION so that all who deserve to enjoy the fruit of their labor shall gladly do.
I, Konodia Ayishetu, on behalf of the scholarship girls, give my most sincere gratitude to the creator and to the Board members. May God continue to bless and promote you all the days of your life for the love and care you have shown us. I would also like to say a very big thanks to all who have contributed to the success of this foundation both in Ghana and Canada. Thank you!!!!. We girls of TOOL FOR SCHOOLS AFRICA FOUNDATION promise to work hard to promote girl child education globally. Long live TOOL FOR SCHOOLS AFRICA FOUNDATION. GRACIAS (Thank you)!!!.