Mampong Presby SHS cries for help

The Mampong Presbyterian Senior High School (PRESEC) has made a passionate appeal to all stakeholders in education, particularly the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), to come to the aid of the school.

Mampong PRERSEC was established by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) in 1991, as a community day school with an initial student population of nine, made up of five boys and four girls.

The school was absorbed into the Ghana public educational system in 1992, and now has a student population of over 1,800 offering various courses.

The school lacks assembly and dining halls, potable water, toilet facilities and vehicles, as well as classroom blocks, fence wall, masters' bungalows and adequate dormitories for both boys and girls.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after a tour of the school, the headmaster, Reverend E.T Akusaki said, lack of facilities in the school was affecting teaching and learning.

He said the school has four boreholes, but two have broken down and so the remaining two are not sufficient for the entire student population of over 1,800.

The students, he said, therefore rely on a stream which is about a kilometre away from the school, and this is often used as an excuse by some of the students to stay out of the campus.

Reverend Akusaki noted that the dormitories of the school are congested, and because it lacks a dining hall, the students have to queue for their food, and that has forced the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to construct a makeshift structure without a cemented floor, to serve as both dining and assembly halls.

According to the headmaster, another pressing need is a school bus, because the authorities have to fall on other schools for means of transport for extra curricular activities outside the campus.

The Headmaster noted that even though the school had been absorbed into the public educational system, most of the facilities have been provided by the PCG and the PTA.

He said but for the PCG, the only vehicle being used by the school would not have been possible, and therefore appealed to all stakeholders to come to the aid of the school to expand its facilities in order to provide quality education to the future leaders who pass through its walls.

The headmaster said because the school has no fence wall coupled with the fact that most of the teachers lived outside the campus, students' adherence to rules of staying on campus is difficult, they often sneak out while theft is rampant because of the several routes leading to the school.

He, therefore, made a passionate appeal to all stakeholders, particularly the GETFund, to come to their aid to enable them expand facilities and improve teaching and learning.