Kanyiri Godfred, a team member for ATE in Lawra, pens his thoughts and experiences of the process of weighing and measuring all 654 students that attend Karbo Primary and JHS. A detailed report into our findings will follow in due course.
’17th July, 2015 was a day set aside to visit both schools of Naa Karbo. A team of workers from ATE was to visit the schools. The main reasons for visiting the schools are to take the heights, the weights and the arm circumference of the students. This was done to know how the students have grown by eating the food that is been provided by ATE.
The team tasked with weighing and measuring (left to right)
Elias, Kanyir, Luke, Kenneth, Leela, Eric.
We faced some difficulties in controlling children on how to stand correctly for their heights to be taken, how to stretch their hands for their arm circumference to be taken and how to climb on the scale. I was reading the weight and I noticed that, some students feel that the scale will break if they climb on it and therefore climb reluctantly. There were also required to remove their shoes and sandals before coming out for the measurements. Some refused to do it and we have to do that in order to have accurate measurements.
The heights, weights and arm circumference of all students in the primary school were taken. The next day we went to the junior high to also take their measurements and when we got there, we saw them writing exams. The headmistress of the school told us to go and come back at twelve o’clock in the afternoon. We again went to the primary school to visit some of the children there. At twelve as we were told by the headmistress, we went back to the junior high and also took their measurements.
After the measurements were taken, we noticed that there were so many differences between data collected in January and the recent one. Most of the children had increased in weight, height and growth in arm. This had confirmed that, the children are benefiting from the feeding programme offered by ATE.’
By Kuube-isaan Kanyir Godfred
(Team member)