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Ajumako Bisease schools cry for support

Pupils of the Ajumako Bisease Methodist and Catholic Basic schools in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District in the Central Region are confronted with challenges that undermine academic work in the schools.

Their classroom blocks are in deplorable conditions and the roofs also leak badly.

According to the head teacher of the Methodist Basic School, Mr Maxwell Baiden-Arthur, the classroom block,  which was constructed in the 1940’s, has not seen any major renovation and the roofs leak very badly, which has caused severe damage to the ceiling, adding that the  classrooms get flooded anytime it rains.

He noted that part of the roofs of the building was falling off posing danger to the occupants.

Mr Baiden-Arthur indicated that due to the deplorable state of the block, anytime it rained, classes had to be suspended and the pupils had to go home.

The head teacher, who is also the Assembly Member for the Nyiatsiadze Electoral Area, noted that the school had written to the district assembly, as well as the Member of Parliament for the area, Mr Casiel Ato Forson, on the problem, but help was yet to come.

He therefore made a passionate appeal to the district assembly, past students of the school, as well as philanthropic individuals,to come to the aid of the school.

When this reporter got to the Catholic Basic Schools, the situation was no different as the classroom blocks looked very weak while some of the roofing sheets had fallen off or worn out.

Parts of the roof of the classroom block had become worn-out, exposing the students to the scorching sun as lessons went on.

A teacher in the school, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Daily Graphic that part of the school block being occupied by the JHS one pupils had collapsed, posing danger to the pupils occupying the other classrooms.

He indicated that the conditions in the classrooms exposed both the teachers and pupils to  the vagaries of the weather and that prevented the students from being attentive in class.

He, therefore, appealed to the authorities, particularly the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), to see to the construction of a classroom block that had been abandoned since 2007.

By Gilbert Mawuli Agbey

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