Library

Adansi Brofoyedru needs a library

"The
things
I want to
know are
in books;
my best
friend is
the man
who'll get
me a book
I ain't
read."

Abraham
Lincoln

One important educational facility that Adansi Brofoyedru village has never had is a library. The village, which is in Ghana, West Africa, has come a long way to acquire three basic schools since its founding in 1650. The schools are Adansi Brofoyedru Methodist Primary and Junior Secondary School which was established in 1940, United Junior Secondary School built in 1965, and Roman Catholic Primary, started by the Holy Roman Catholic church in 1971. Recently, a Day Care Center has been built in the village. The student population of these basic schools keeps increasing, causing the limited resources they have to be stretched. Textbooks that are used for the academic syllabus are few if present, and one book needs to be shared by many students.

"Textbooks that are used for the academic syllabus are very few if present, and one book needs to be shared by many students."

Instruments such as math-sets, are extremely scarce or never available. Also, some of the classrooms have bad roofing, with holes scattered over the roofs, allowing water

to literally pour into the classrooms during rainy days. These dire problems frustrate efforts of the dedicated teaching staff the village has been blessed with. In addition, none of these schools has a library. Long ago, when these schools were being constructed in the village, a library was not included in any of their plans. All that was built for each school were classrooms and an office for the principal. In a meeting with the management of Ardent Lion Society, Mr. Kwabena Adomako, principal of Adansi Brofoyedru Methodist and Junior Secondary School, said a library in Adansi Brofoyedru will be an important accomplishment that can avail not just the students, but the villagers as well, books to read all the time

Ardent Lion Society is a not-for-profit organization that is helping Adansi Brofoyedru village build a library. The Abusuapanyin (Elder from royal family) of Adansi Brofoyedru, Nana Owusu Atta-Kruffi, emphasized that a library in Adansi Brofoyedru will go a long way to serve all the villages near Adansi Brofoyedru as well. He said none of these villages has ever had a library, and it would be the first time that most of these villagers would be seeing a library building. The paramount chief of Adansi Brofoyedru, Nana Amoako-Kosari Diamim II, who is very pleased with the project, said a library will make it possible for reading as a habit to be nurtured in the youth of Adansi Brofoyedru.

"...a library in Adansi Brofoyedru will go a long way to serve all the villages near Adansi Brofoyedru..."

The chief of the village has already allocated land, spanning three hundred feet, for the library. The location of the land is very convenient for all the schools in the village. The CEO of Ardent Lion Society inc., Mr. Romeo Amoako-Agyeman, who is also the firstborn son of the chief of Adansi Brofoyedru, is working very hard on the library project for the village. Mr. Romeo Amoako-Agyeman announced that the organization is soliciting for financial and material help from individuals and companies alike, and all donations toward the library are welcome. He said all donors can make their donations payable to Ardent Lion Society, and mail them to the organization through its mailing address of, Ardent Lion Society, P. O. Box 356, White Plains, NY, 10605. Donors can also contact the organization on phone # 914 874 4480 or through E-Mail address Kofiromeo@Ardentlion.org for their donations, material or financial, to be picked up. A receipt is mailed to all donors and every donation will go a long way to help the villagers living in and near Adansi Brofoyedru, experience the dream of a library.