Anum Sr High Presby School

Anum is one of 34 Sr High Schools the PCG partners with the Ghanaian government.  Anum has 3,000 students and is a boarding school.  It has a rich history dating back to the early 1900s and a couple of the original buildings, like the chapel, are still on the campus.

Drying clothes on the ground in the sunshine.

With 3,000 students the school has a lot of challenges with that many students - water not being the least of them.  The campus has 4 bore holes, a water feed from Ghana Water Company, and we heard today at one point (in recent times) was able to lift water from Lake Volta up the hill to the campus.

Today we saw other challenges as well.  such as the campus took a series of lightening strikes which knocked out several pumps around the campus - including the one that feeds the LWW system.  EAch bore hole has two pumps to it to lift and distribute the water.  We were disappointed in not seeing the system in full run mode - but understand the challenge.

The system at Anum is a reverse osmosis system because of the high iron content of the bore hole water.  Very common in the hills and mountains of Ghana.

The upside of the visit was we got to see a group of students, who had taken the health education class with Rose and Regina, give their demonstration, i.e. the read out of what they learned.

We think the school’s admin can get their arms around the various challenges related to water, but as we learned with Kibi (similar scale) it does take planning, thinking about distribution of the water, etc.  Teiko, Kofi and Rev Asante are very supportive of the school’s admin team - which is helpful!!