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Akatakyie AZ Group Bequeaths GHS500k  Landscape Project to Opoku Ware School

 The 2001 graduating class of Opoku Ware School, known as AZ group per the school’s unique numbering system, over the weekend handed over a landscape project to the school to mark its silver jubilee of leaving the school.

This followed the school’s 74th anniversary Speech and Prize-giving Day held at the school’s Nana Joe Mensah Auditorium as part of an Akatakyie Homecoming Weekend under the theme “Building Alumni Excellence: Honouring the Past, Present and Future.” Other activities marking the weekend included a student debate, a football tournament and a mentoring session for the students of the school.

Akatakyie AZ, Opoku Ware School

According to the association’s Global President, Kat. Mike Adu-Domfeh (AB146), the project was the final phase of a 5-year landscaping plan adopted by the fraternity and started in 2022 by the AV group on the occasion of their 25th anniversary of graduation,  to help beautify the school and create a conducive teaching and learning environment.

The project architect, Kat. Nana Agyemang Cobbinah (AZ295), explained that the project, which cost the group GHS500,000.00 covered grassing, planting of shady trees, construction of semi-circular reinforced concrete seats to foster interaction or socializing, construction of a laundry area with reinforced concrete seats and table, 10 standing pipes, 5 reinforced concrete scrub basins, floor drains, 600sqm area of pavement blocks installation and the installation of kerbs to define pedestrian walkways.

Akatakyie AZ, Opoku Ware School

The group’s president, Kat. George Wereko-Brobbey (AZ390), stated that  his group members recognised and appreciated the impact the school had made on their lives and that this silver jubilee project was their way of giving back. “Further, even though we have been actively connected through social media platforms, this was an opportunity to actually come together from all over the world, celebrate each other and reminsice over the good old days. It has been great fun”, he said.

The headmaster of the school, Rev. Fr. Stephen Owusu Sekyere, thanked the AZ group for their kind gesture, which he said had helped to make campus more beautiful and attractive, and promised the group that the school will take good care of the facilities for future generations of students.

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