Beo Senior High/ Technical School appeals for support
The Interim Management Board and staff of the Beo Community Senior High/Technical School in the Bongo District have appealed to corporate bodies and philanthropists to assist the school.
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Established by the community last year, the school lacks basic infrastructure and, therefore, uses the Catholic Social Centre as a classroom. It is also using the Beo Area Council Hall as a hostel for the girls.
Some of the boys are using a mud structure put up by the community with the support of the Catholic Relief Service as a dormitory and others are renting places in the community.
The board and members of staff told the GNA that the situation would be unbearable this academic year because of the many new students who had applied for admission.
The Chairman of the Board, Mr Emmanuel Azalma, said the community established the school to provide easy access to secondary education for the number of students who finished junior high school.
He said financial constraints also made it difficult for parents to send their children who were placed in distant schools.
Apart from that, the area has about 13 junior high schools and most of them did not usually get placed by the computerised selection system.
“Therefore, to reduce the dropout rate in the community, we decided to establish the school by levying the community members,” Mr Azalma said.
He said the board, with support from chiefs in the area, acquired 67 acres of land and appealed for assistance from corporate organisations and philanthropists to develop the site to help absorb more students.
The acting headmaster of the school, Mr Alurugo Daniel Ngabila, said other challenges facing the school included lack of workshop, ICT centre and teaching and learning materials.
He said the school had a student population of 102, made up of 50 boys and 52 girls.
