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NEWS

Oct/Nov 2011 www.esb.ie/em

Our time in Ghana

On the 13th of September, under the hot African sun, Osu, Accra shook with the sound of African drums as Ghanaian Ministers, Mayors, Chiefs, school staff, students, parents and 32 ESB Volunteers/Management danced and sang to celebrate the opening of Osu Manhean Basic School. A school once dilapidated and left abandoned, now transformed into a Kindergarten, Primary and Junior High School. The volunteers couldn’t have asked for a greater reward for all the hard work than to see and hear the smiles and laughter of some of the over 350 new students that were present to witness the commissioning of their beautiful new school. ESB Chief Executive Padraig McManus addressed the crowd and thanked the Ghanians for their friendly hospitality and thanked the volunteers and Project Team for all their time and effort in making the project such a success. After spending their last couple of days touching up Kaneshie School with a new lick of paint, some new lights and a few repair jobs, the ESB volunteers headed home with happy faces having had the experience of a lifetime.

image shows two men standing in the shool building

image shows a lady and a man with a child from the school.

image shows a man and two women at the entrance to the new school

image shows the entire gathering of people at the officially opening of the school

image shows a girl from ESB with a group of men from the village.

image shows 2 men working inside the school. One os up a ladder.

image shows the ESB Electric Aid team who travelled to Ghana

image shows 2 slides at the park outside the school

image shows a woman from ESB in the Kindergarden with a group of children at the board.

image shows a wonam sitting with the children in one of the new classrooms.

image shows the outside of the school building

image shows a group of children in the kindergarden

image shows a man working on the school building

image shows the esternal of the entire school buildings

ROLL OF HONOUR OSU MANHEAN BASIC SCHOOL, ACCRA 2011

Tina Pittock
Michael O’Connor
John Byrne
James Bane
Mark Dixon
Stephen Donlon
Caroline Kinsella
Sean Kelly
Ken Lynch
Alan Matthews
Michael J. Mullins
Robert Shanley
Diarmuid Shinnors
Shauna Brady
Eddie Byrne
Helen Cherry
Fiona Coughlan
Kieran Coughlan
Sean Finnegan
Declan Goode
Declan Hayes
Josephine Marley
Clare Morrisson
Finola O’Donnell
Chau Nguyen
John Redmond
Emer Walsh
Jeff Walsh
Stuart McGovern
Donal Flynn
Paddy Stapleton
Padraig McManus
Maol Muire Tynan
Emer Finlay