FIFA Referee Agbovi’s family establishes education endowment fund in his memory

The family of the late Albert Pythias Agbovi, who was a FIFA Referee in Ghana and hails from Agortime-Kpetoe in the Volta Region, has established an Education Endowment Fund in his memory to help less privileged children in the area.

The Albert Pythias Agbovi Education Endowment Fund also aims at bringing to an end the situation where children in the Agortime-Ziope District engage in cross border business activities in search of money to support their families to the detriment of their education.

To ensure that the children in school are well protected against the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Education Endowment Fund Committee Members recently gave personal protection equipment to schools in the district for onward donation to students currently in school.

Presenting the items, which included Veronica buckets, liquid soaps, hand sanitisers, jumbo tissues and nose-masks to the Agortime-Ziope District Director of Education, Madam Happy Tsifokor, a representative of the Agbovi Family, Nene Agbovi VI said the gesture was to demonstrate the love the late Albert Pythias Agbovi had for children in school.

Nene Agbovi explained that the Albert Pythias Agbovi Education Endowment Fund had already formed a committee, including a renowned educationist in the area, Mr. Anthony Agbovi, and Mrs. Gloria Abiwu among others to carefully select brilliant but needy children to benefit from the fund.

According to Nene Agbovi, it was expected that the fund would grow to cover the entire Volta Region, but now the attention is on the Agortime-Ziope District.

Receiving the items on behalf of the Regional Directorate of Education, Madam Happy Tsifokor thanked the Agbovi Family for the gesture, stressing that since schools reopened, the area had benefited from PPEs provided by the Ghana Education Service and Agortime-Ziope District Assembly.

Madam Tsifokor noted that the Agbovi Family of Kpetoe was the first private organisation that had presented protective equipment to schools in the area.

To her, the gesture showed the seriousness the fund attached to education of children in the district and beyond.

The Agortime-Ziope District Chief Executive, Mr. John Korku Amenyah, thanked the Agbovi Family for the gesture, saying it would go a long way to complement educational activities the assembly had embarked upon on the COVID-19 disease in the district, particularly in schools.

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