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PTA provides Worawora SHS with administration block

The buildingAn administration block  for the Worawora Senior High School in the Biakoye District in the Volta Region has been inaugurated.

The block was constructed by the parent-teacher association(PTA) at a cost of GH¢144,834.90

The building has a staff common room and 12 offices.

Inaugurating the block, the Biakoye District Director of Education, Mr Samuel Docherty Ashie, commended the PTA for the intervention and said it would provide a congenial atmosphere to promote better administrative services and more space for academic work.

Mr Ashie was very grateful to the government for the four GETFund projects being provided for the school. He, however, expressed regret that out of the four projects, only one, which is a 12-unit storey classroom block, had been completed while the contractors had abandoned two others, namely the dining hall complex and the boys’ dormitory block.

The other one, the girls’ dormitory block, he said, had been taken over from the original contractor and given to the one who had completed the 12-unit single storey classroom block. He asked the staff to maintain the building.

The headmaster of the school, Mr Joseph Yaotse Asam, expressed concern about inadequate infrastructural facilities such as dormitories, forcing the boys to sleep in an open old community centre while the girls were crammed in three staff bungalows.

Mr Asam appealed to the GETFund Secretariat to provide the necessary funds for the early completion of the projects to give the school a brighter future. The school's enrolment is 1,164, compromising 634 girls and 530 boys.

He noted that the absence of a fence encouraged the use of the school compound as thoroughfare by people around with stray animals feeding all over the place.

Water, Mr Asam said, was another challenge, since the school had only one borehole available for all the students.

Earlier in a welcome address, Mr David Acheampong, the chairman of the PTA, said the association started the project in 2007 and was funded through a special levy it had instituted for members. While expressing his gratitude to the Asubonten Rural Bank at Worawora and the chiefs for their support, he called on the old students of the school to come to the aid of their alma mater.

By Emmanuel Modey

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