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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. – Oprah Winfrey.

When the BECE results were released by WAEC on September 6th, 2015, a lot of parents and guardians began to prepare feverishly towards securing a place for their wards. Some of the students had their results cancelled as usual, whiles others were faultless to have received theirs without delay.

It is an annual ritual that some brilliant students are unable to go to senior high school primarily due to lack of finance. 

On the 24th of October, 2015, Mr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah, a lecturer at University was informed of a particular student at Kasoa in the central region who could not enrol at the Mfantsiman Senior School due to financial difficulties.

Without hesitation, the lecturer consequently invited the student to Central University, Mataheko campus, where he contributed an amount as seed- money and his students willingly joined the contribution to raise money for the brilliant girl, Faith Attipoe, to go to school.

 According to the lecturer, with the help of friends and his students at the Central University, enough money was raised to enable them send the girl to school on Thursday, 5th November, 2015, since all her colleagues had already reported to school.

Mr. Otchere-Ankrah further called on philanthropists to assist him cater for the girl throughout her senior high school and even at the tertiary level. He appeals that wealthy people should help the needy in society especially ‘the girl child’.  He quotes Chinua Achebe to buttress his zeal, “….when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absent-mindedly.”

In an interview with the student, Faith Attipoe, she posits that she wants to become a medical doctor in future.