Atta Old Girls sponsor WAEC registration for candidates of Alma Mater

By Jude Onyenedogha…

It was indeed an epoch making event Wednesday, February 21, 2024, as the Old Girls Association of Atta Girls High School sponsored the West African Examination Council (WAEC) registration for the 2024 Senior Secondary 3 set of their Alma mater.

A cash sum of Thirty Thousand Naira (N30,000), being the WAEC registration fee was handed to each of the Thirty five (35) students of the school which now comprises female and male students who registered for the external examination.

Speaking during the official presentation of the cash, chairperson of the association, Lolo Nkemdi Akano Onyirimba and the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mrs Evelyn Iwu-Childs, who spoke through the contact person and Imo State coordinator of the association, Lady Heart Iwuamadi, said the association has been doing a lot to improve the lots of the school.

“We have been coming. Anytime we think out something to help them, we come to carry it out. Some three, five years ago, we came when they complained that they didn’t have a large hall for external exams. The old girls stepped in and renovated this school main hall for them”.

On their reason for embarking on the payment of WAEC registration for the WAEC candidates, Lady Iwuamadi said, “This year, when we interviewed the Principal, he told us that the population of the school is reducing, principally because of hard times, as most parents are no longer able to take care of their children and wards’ academic financial demands.

“We now reasoned together and decided to take care of the WAEC registration of SS3 students this year. So we embarked on freewill donation, through which we raised the money for this project and other logistics associated with it, including the snacks and drinks we brought for the school today”.

She disclosed that the Old Girls have also undertaken to build a modern toilet facility for the school, while urging the beneficiaries to study hard and make excellent results in their exams, which she said will serve as motivation for the organization, towards making the project an annual event.

Fielding questions from newsmen, Principal of the school, Rev. Ikenna Nwanna, expressed gratitude to the Old Girls for the kind gesture, praying for God’s continuous blessings on them, while urging the students to reciprocate by working hard to achieve the aim for the gesture which is excellent result in their WAEC and future academic successes.

“I am dumfounded. I don’t know how to appreciate them for extending hands of assistance to the students, their parents and the school at this time of economic hardship in our country”.

Earlier, a guest speaker at the occasion, Rev. Canon Dr. Emma Egbule maintained that education is the easiest way to achieve genuine and sustainable success in life, emphasizing on the need for people who have tested the goodnesses of education to deliberately devote time in teaching the young ones the enormous benefits in education.

Speaking, the chairman, Parents Teachers Association of the school, Mr Enwenonu Chima appreciated the association for its numerous benevolent gestures to the school, pleading for its sustenance, while expressing readiness of the PTA to collaborate with the Old Girls towards lifting the school to greater heights.

Delivering the vote of thanks, on behalf of the beneficiaries, Senior Prefect of the school, Miss Nwankwo Favour, expressed appreciation to the Old Girls for sponsoring their WAEC registration, promising not to let them down, while praying God to replenish their purses abundantly.