A farmer in the Jaman South Municipality of the Bono region, Mr. Kyere Collins has donated 20,000 tubers of yam to support the Free Senior High School Programme.
The gesture by the farmer is his contribution towards helping the government to sustain the policy.
He revealed that, he knows one of the key components of the programme is feeding hence the donation in order to ease some of the pressure on the government in terms of feeding the students.
Mr. Kyere revealed that he plans to donate more foodstuffs to help sustain the programme.
“The Free Senior High School programme is a nice initiative by the government, the least we can do is to support it. This is my contribution towards the programme and I promise to give more next year.”
The Bono Region Free Senior High School Coordinator, Mr. Kusi Boadum who received the yams on behalf of the secretariat was full praise for the farmer.
He promised that the yams will be evenly distributed to the various schools and charged other individuals to emulate same.
