14/04/2020
Information for the friends and supporters of Ghatronic
The main NEWS are published in www.ghatronic.com; this is a summary of the eventful last weeks:
Announced first courses were:
First Basic Course: March 18th to March 20th
First Advanced Course: March 23rd to March 26th
Due to the corona crisis in Germany, the trainer Björn S. of the company Wuerth was unable to come to Accra for the First Advanced Course. Regretfully he had to cancel the course on March 12th or rather postpone the course to a later date.
Nevertheless, we initially planned to realise the first courses in Accra because there was no case of Covid 19 disease in Ghana.
Ghatronic Foundation is greatly supported by the staff of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kumasi Technical University and the ATTC (Accra Technical Training Center). From these institutions, two experienced trainers, Mr. Abraham K. and Mr. Evans A., work closely together with us and they will definitely be Ghatronic Foundation trainers at the beginning.
On Saturday, March 14th we had a meeting to discuss the final planning of the courses, the workshop and the seminar room was completely renovated.
With the background that the corona crisis had advanced worldwide, we decided to postpone the courses. The potential of infection would be very high at our courses, since a minimum distance between the participants can often not be assured.
Ghatronic had already received the Application Form from the participants, so the course participants could be informed by email. The postponement of the courses was published on the website.
From Monday 16th March all schools, universities and churches in Ghana were closed and right to travel was restricted. Further precautionary measures such as closing the beaches and disinfecting the markets followed.