BISAK's Help A School Project

As a tangible way of involving our students in an international development programme, we are helping a deprived school in northern Ghana - to provide it with water from bore holes, to refurbish its decrepit classrooms, to provide accomodation for teachers and to provide electrical power, possibly by solar panels. We also hope that this open-ended project will allow us to exchange teachers and students.

The project is driven by our aim to develop internationally minded, tolerant and outward thinking young people, who take thinking of others as a matter of course, and not as an optional extra.

We have so far not been successful in our quest for water. The situation is now dire. Women and children are walking miles late at night to beat the heat and the queues; otherwise they can wait 5 or 6 hours during the day for a pail of water each.

Official thanks to BISAK
At a celebration of Ghana’s 50th Independence Anniversary held in Al-Khobar on 15th March 2007, the Ghanaian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, His Excellency Al-Haji Rashid Bawa presented the Principal with a “Certificate of Appreciation” for BISAK’s efforts in supporting the children of Pishigu.