THE CAPE-COAST POLYTECHNIC SRC WOMEN’S COMMISSIONER INITIATIVE

By: Diana Tekyi-Arhin (CJA)

The Cape Coast polytechnic SRC women’s commissioner, Miss Helena Owusu, in an interview said the program schedule for the women in the semester will be exuberant and that will lease the women feel lively on campus as she promised. She said there will be many activities which will be organized.

 First, there will be leadership training for the women and to educate them on the leadership skills to enable them to come up for students’ governance and other related activities. And she said resource personnel will be invited particularly to educate the women and to encourage  them to know what they can perfectly do  which will be held at coast Polytechnic main auditorium on Friday 25^th of October 2013 and this is going to be specifically for the class reps, various denominational, associational and departmental women’s commissioners.

Again, there will be inter-schools “it takes two”, as she promised to set a strong cordial relationship between the schools. She said, is a purposely for bringing the three schools together for them to know each other, which will be done by the each school representative and this is going to take place at the cape-coast polytechnic borsah square on the 16^th of October 2013. And this will aid to entertain student and to establish relationship among them. She said as education in C.poly is not all about books, quizzes and examination but entertainments are also part of the entire academic calendar,  any associations, clubs who will be actively involved will get the chance also to promote their clubs and for them to know each other.

Moreover, she said there will be a women’s day for the akwaaba week celebration. A day has been schedule for the women on November 6th, 2013 at the borsah square and her objective is to help women overcome challenges on campus. Speaking to us she said it is a time that the individual student who get involved to have the opportunity to unwind and reflect on cultural and social values on campus. The guest speaker will be Mrs. Magdalene Abakah the former Dean of the school of business who would assist the women in solving problems facing them in today’s world, on the topic “Challenges of Tertiary Education”. This is due to the fact that, campus’ life today has become very challenging. This program will enable them to understand and to fit in any situation they will find themselves.

Miss Helena Finally gave an assurance that she is not going to let the women down; she will be there to assist them and also work hard as she has promised.