The Management of the Ridge Church School has officially launched a Trust Fund for the construction of a private secondary school.

Speaking to the media, the Headmistress of the school, Nana Ama Badasu said the five-year strategic plan of the school also requires that some of the resources will be channelled into maintaining the various facilities at the school.

She believed that with the establishment of the Trust Fund, Ridge Church School would consistently receive the help it needs in terms of resources to achieve its ultimate goal.

In view of this, Mrs Badasu was optimistic that the alumni of the school and other beneficiaries of the entity will throw in their support to see this dream materialise.

“We have most of our old students outside the country who have also wished to support the school and so this came to mind that once we have a trust fund, then people can donate as and when they want to,” she said on Thursday.

Giving a brief about the secondary school, the headmistress said it will use both Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Cambridge Curriculum to teach its students.

She indicated that this will ensure that products of the yet-to-be-established second-cycle school are well-learned in the critical areas to bring about development.

“We are doing both because of the competitiveness of the Cambridge curriculum. Our children are trained so that they can compete everywhere. We also know that the Cambridge curriculum is tried and tested, so they will be doing it vis-a-vis the GES curriculum,” she stated.

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For his part, the Vice President of the Planning Committee, Enoch Ofosu-Appiah said subjects related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will be highly prioritised in the private secondary school.

According to him, STEM has proven to be the solution to numerous problems in various countries.

Citing countries such as Denmark and India, Mr Ofosu-Appiah said the said nations have benefited profusely from STEM, a move he believes can be implemented in Ghana.

“We want to develop students who will have the skills to solve problems in the country with a STEM approach, because Ghana has so many problems and this is the time we find alternatives and solutions to these issues,” he said.

By the end of the fundraiser a sum of GH₵65,000 and $1,000 had been realised. The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare set the momentum with an amount of GH₵20,000.