Classroom blocks for four schools under trees

Akuntanim (B/A), Oct 13, GNA - Squadron Leader Ben Anane Asamoah (RTD), Dormaa District Chief Executive, has cut the sod for construction work to begin on classroom blocks estimated at 2.6 billion cedis for four 'schools under trees' in the district.

The projects, funded by the GETFund, comprise six-unit classrooms with libraries, offices and teachers' common halls for the Methodist Primary schools at Amasu, Dormaa-Ahenkro, Dormaa-Akwamu and a three-unit classroom block for the Methodist Junior High School at Akuntanim. In separate speeches in the various communities, the DCE said the government's prudent educational policies had led to increases in pupils' enrolment, triggering the need for additional classrooms. Squadron Leader Anane Asamoah said 5,126 dual desks were being manufactured for distribution to basic schools "to ease the perennial problem of inadequate furniture in schools in the district". He said pupil/teacher ratio in the district had also increased tremendously due to the recruitment of teaching assistants under the National Youth Employment Programme.

"The District Assembly's next target in education is to intensify the campaign against child labour to ensure that all children of school-going age are sustained in school as well as the maximum utilization of the improved educational facilities.'' Squadron Leader Anane Asamoah urged the beneficiary communities and the Methodist Church to lend moral support and offer communal labour for the early completion of the projects.