Duker Teachers’, Health Workers’ Award Set for Tomorrow

The third edition of ‘Duker Teachers’ Award’, instituted in the year 2022, by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency, in the Western Region, George Mireku Duker, is slated for this Friday, October 25, 2024.

The laudable initiative, which is an annual event meant to reward hardworking and dedicated teachers and health workers in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality, would be held at Cyanide Astroturf in Tarkwa.

It promises to attract people from academia, traditional leaders, the business community and it is opened to the general public, The Anchor gathered.

The carefully thought through event, is aimed at recognizing the enormous dedication and contribution of teachers and health workers to the nation’s educational system and health sector.

Last year’s edition, was won by a female tutor from Tarkwa Senior High school, Madam Edna Amihere, as the overall best teacher after beating four other male contenders.

She went home with a $14,500 brand new saloon car.

The year 2023 edition, also saw two more categories – Non-Teaching and Head teacher award categories, making it six awards in number.

The categories are; Non- teaching staff, Kindergarten category, Primary Category, JHS Category, Senior High School Category, Head Teacher Category and Overall Best Teacher Category.

A total of nine teachers, plus the overall best teacher, received various prizes and each of the categories, had both second and first runner up, receiving prizes ranging from chest freezer, 50 inch led Television and a Refrigerator.

Why Teachers’ Award

Meanwhile, Mr Duker, who explained the brain behind the award scheme, said developing educational structures and potentials in Tarkwa-Nsuaem, was not only about providing the necessary infrastructure, teaching and learning materials, but also to take into cognisance the welfare of the human resource that nurture our children.

“You can all attest that, Teachers are the fulcrum around which all discoveries and advancement of knowledge in all fields of endeavor revolve,” he told the gathering at last year’s event.

The Tarkwa MP, who doubles as Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, said education has been top of his priority, to change the fortunes of his Municipality.

He told the gathering that, teachers are minimally motivated, irrespective of the strenuous task they put in their work.

That apart, he is also aware that, some teachers teach in very remote areas that are not accessible by transportation, yet they continue to give off their best.

“These are some of the reasons why I set forth this journey, through your good selves to change the face of teaching in the Wassa Fiase enclave,” he said.

As a Member of Parliament, Minister Mireku Duker, pointed out he is very much committed to recognise  teachers, whom he described as the heartbeat of our educational system and even in the face of uncertainties, they put up their best to shape the expectations of our future leaders.

“This makes teaching a special profession that requires special values to nurture the young ones. It takes indefatigable men and women called Teachers to imbue the expectations of our young ones towards their aspirations. We have all risen to our current levels just because of some impacts made by most of our teachers.

Today, we will celebrate patriotic torch-bearers and all colleagues in the Profession like them, working assiduously towards the development of Ghana despite peculiar challenges they face in line of work”.

According to him, the reason for instituting the award scheme, “stems from the various sacrifices made by teachers in this Municipality, to impact our children towards their future and I believe the institution of this award scheme is one way towards recognising and motivating their efforts.

I am very optimistic that it is a rightful step towards enriching education in the Municipality and it aligns with contributing towards achieving the targets of goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.

MP Duker, assured the gathering that the award scheme, has come to stay and “I will like to cease this opportunity to call on all stakeholders to support in making it one of the best awarding schemes in the Country”.

Source: Anchorghana.com