Five basic schools in BAK district to begin school feeding programme

Adunku (Ash), June 8, GNA - Five basic schools in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma (BAK) district would soon be selected to benefit from the National School Feeding Programme. Mr. Bright Addai-Mununkum, the District Chief Executive, who announced this, said the assembly has just taken delivery of large quantities of cooking utensils for the programme and would soon build dinning halls for the beneficiary schools to enable the programme take off.

He was inaugurating two school projects for Adunku district assembly and Adwuman Catholic primary schools respectively on Tuesday. The projects which comprised two six-classrooms, offices, toilets and store, cost 939 million cedis and were funded by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), HIPC fund, the assembly and the communities. Mr Addai-Mununkum noted that since education was the bedrock of every nation, the government would do everything possible to put in place the needed infrastructure facilities to enhance teaching and learning.

He stated that the assembly has been supporting teacher and nurse trainees and tertiary students financially every year all geared towards improving the manpower needs of the district and the nation as a whole. The DCE cautioned parents and guardians to desist from spending huge sums of money on funerals and clothings at the expense of their children's education.

Mr Addai-Mununkum therefore, appealed to the beneficiary communities to develop good maintenance culture for the projects to last longer.

Nana Osei Bonsu, chief of Adunku, commended the government for the projects and urged parents not only to send their children to school but also provide them the needed basic needs to enhance teaching and learning.