Adjei Kojo State School for the Deaf cries for help

The management of the Tetteh Ocloo State School for the Deaf at Adjei Kojo in the Tema Metropolis has renewed its appeal to the government to address infrastructural challenges facing the school.

The Headmistress of the School, Ms Barbara Ennin, who made the appeal disclosed that work on a two-storey dormitory block for male students, which started in 1999, had come to a standstill while the female dormitory block, which was completed in 2011, was yet to be put to use due to the lack of approval from the appropriate authorities.

Challenges

She said as a result of these challenges, students travelled long distances from as far as Kasoa, Kpong, Ningo, Prampram to and from school daily and that was negatively impacting on academic work because the children came in late and went home early.

Ms Ennin spoke about problems confronting the school when one of the aspiring National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Tema