Bricks/Blocks Campaign

Constructing the first phase of our permanent campus has been an interesting and fascinating journey. However, the contruction process is almost done. Since September, 2019 our students, faculty and staff have been using the new facility to its fullest capacity. Our new location has indeed given our students, faculty and staff the most convenient environment for teaching and learning. It has indeed given us the opportunity to provide the kind of liberal arts education we have always envisioned for our students in Ghana. Without a doubt our relocating to our new campus has enabled us to make significant progress in the Institutional Accreditation process with the National Accreditation Board (NAB) and have aided our quest for Institutional Affiliation with the University of Cape Coast (UCC). Securing Institutional Accreditation and Affiliation will give us the opportunity to run three (3) and four (4)  Year Degree Programs at Palm Institute. We are very thankful for how far we have come. However, we have a few outstanding projects to finish in order to finally complete the first phase of our permanent campus. The following are the projects: 

• Streets Lights: We need to purchase and set up street lights to light up the campus at night to enable our students, staff and faculty travel safely at night to their various individual destinations. It gets really dark at night here on campus and students; staff and faculty find it difficulty walking around and leaving campus on foot. The cost of purchasing and fixing the street lights is $6,580.
• Connection to Ghana Water Company: Our campus is currently not connected to the main water source of the country. We currently use a borehole for flashing toilets, washing of dishes and watering of gardens and plants. We need to connect to a potable water source for students, staff and faculty to use. The cost of connecting to Ghana Water Company is $12,272. 
• Rain Water Harvesting (rain gutters & pipes): Instead of relying on the national source of water supply for watering plants and gardens, we plan on harvesting rain water throughout the year for such purposes. The cost of purchasing and fixing the gutters and pipes for the rain water harvesting is $5,227. 
• Parking Lot: The parking lot for the initial phase of the campus is unfinished. We would appreciate completing the parking lot. We need 145,000 piece of pavement blocks, about 10 trip of Quarry Dust, 5 trips of River Sand, 10 rolls of large polytene materials for the flloors and cost of paying the workers who would construct the partking lot.  The cost of completing the parking lot is $25,000. 

Kindly support Palm Institute through NAPE Foundation by donating towards any of the above projects. We are extremely grateful for your continued support. 

Sincerely, 

Dr. Peter Carlos Okantey