Mpohor District Assembly to spend GH¢270,000 on girl-child education
The Mpohor District Assembly in the Western Region is to spend GH¢270,000 on four key girl-child education activities in the district. The activities include sending teenage mothers to school and increasing the enrolment of girls in schools.
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The programme, which has been planned by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to take place throughout the various communities, also involves ensuring high retention and completion rates among girls in schools, as well as sensitising parents to the importance of girl-child education.
Furniture for schools
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Mpohor, Mr Albert Abrefo Awotwe, indicated, however, that most of the schools needed furniture, and that the education directorate had compiled and forwarded a list of all schools that needed both mono and dual desks to the Ministry of Education (MoE), through the Regional Minister, for consideration.
Addressing the First Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly at Mpohor, the district capital, he said the assembly, for its part would continue to improve upon existing education structures that would require renovation, as well as the construction new ones, with the view to helping enhance teaching and learning in the district.
Oversight Committee
The DCE also announced that the District Education Oversight Committee, which is mandated by law to handle educational matters, had been reconstituted with him as the chairman and the District Director of Education as its secretary.
Mr Awotwe also expressed the intention of the assembly to offer scholarships to deserving pupils and students, construct teachers’ quarters, as well as establish a Best Teacher Award scheme to encourage teachers to accept postings to the district.
He also expressed his heartfelt appreciation to the GES staff, teachers and other stakeholders of education for their immense support towards the successful conduct of the recent Basic Education Examination Certificate (BECE) in the district.
Development projects
The DCE catalogued a number of development projects being undertaken by the assembly in the various communities, in the areas of health, roads, extension of electricity, agriculture, potable water and sanitation, and said some of them had either been completed or were close to completion.
In his welcome address, the Presiding Member (PM) for the assembly, Mr Isaac Boafo, announced that the assembly scored 62 per cent and placed first in the Ghana Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms (GSAM) project on performance audit findings.
He appealed to members of the assembly to contribute their quota towards raising more internally generated fund (IGF) to augment its share of the District Assemblies Common Fund meant for effective development.