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Volta Senior High School seeks support

Community leaders in Agbledomi, a fishing community in the Keta Municipality, have appealed to the government to help complete a 12-classroom block project they initiated almost 12 years ago to serve as a community senior high school.

The community has been able to construct six out of the 12 classrooms up to roofing level but its leaders say they have run out of funds to continue.

The building to accommodate the Volta Senior High School started with communal labour by the people and fund-raising in 2002.

The Assembly Member for the area, Mr Gabriel Ahianyo, said the project  was recently revived with donations from the Member of Parliament, Mr Clement Kofi Humado, and funds raised by members of the community but the support was just enough for six classrooms.

“The sea erosion has affected fishing in our community, so it is difficult these days for our people to contribute financially to the project,” he added.

The other six were just at the foundation level and were being used as a playground for a group of schoolchildren when the Daily Graphic visited the school.

Mr Ahianyo said so far GH¢95,000 had been spent on the project.       

A school in need

With a student population of 73, the Volta Senior High School is one of the least-resourced in the Volta Region. Its student population also means that the school can offer only two programmes — General Arts and Visual Arts.

The entire school occupies a three-classroom block with no computer and science laboratories. Its computer library has been completed but without shelves, although some benevolent individuals and groups have donated books for it.

The school’s burdens are on the shoulders of the community – from the salaries of teachers to other administrative costs.

“We started the senior high school because it was too expensive to send our children to other schools outside our community.

Absorbing into public system

He, therefore, appealed to the Ministry of Education to absorb the school into the public system, and added that the community had a little over six acres to expand its facilities.

“We have written letters to the District Director of Education to help absorb the school into the public system but so far nothing has come out of it. If we succeed, a lot more of our children will choose the school.”

The Chairman of the Local Schools Management Committee, Mr Garry Akpaglo, said the school desperately needed the public recognition to lift the financial burden off the community’s shoulders.

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