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Jirapa is the capital town of the Jirapa District in the Upper West Region of Ghana. ==Institutions== * The only girls' secondary school in the region, Saint Francis of Assisi Girls' Secondary School, is situated in the town. * Jirapa Senior Secondary School. * St. Joseph’s Hospital in Jirapa is the district hospital. The work was started by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1949 as a wound-dressing centre, and was converted to a hospital and adopted by the Catholic Mission of Tamale in 1953.〔(St. Joseph's Hospital, Jirapa )〕 Two training schools originally attached to the hospital are now the autonomous Jirapa Nurses' Training College and Jirapa Midwifery Training College. There is also a community health training school known as Jirapa Community training school * The St. Joseph Orphanage was renovated in about 2004 by an orphan who is now resident in Italy.〔(Foundation for Rural Education, Empowerment & Development (UK) )〕 It takes up to 40 newborn orphans from nearby hospitals and looks after them during their early childhood.〔(ICT for Development: The Jirapa Project )〕 * St. Joseph Catholic Church is the oldest Catholic Church in the Upper West Region. * There is a police station and a district magistrate court. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jirapa, Ghana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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