Move to save Mawuli School from collapse
Stakeholders of the Mawuli School, Ho, in the Volta Region, have held a brain storming session to explore ways of salvaging the school from further decay.
The initiative was aimed at coming out with a plan of action to redeem the image of the school as a premier institution with an enviable record of discipline academic excellence.
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The session was organised by the management of the school with the collaboration of the Old Students Association (OMSU), Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), board of governors and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana. The Headmaster of the school, Mr Winfred Bonsi, lamented that the development and expansion of infrastructure and logistics have remained stagnant since the school was established 52 years ago.
Mr Bonsi, however, said the student population continues to rise yearly, adding that the present facilities available were designed for 500 students, but the school now has a student population of 1,793.
He said the administration blocks and all the classroom blocks leak profusely when it rains in addition to an antiquated school library, inadequate classrooms, dormitories and staff accommodation. It has no school bus and sporting kits.
Responding to the headmaster’s lamentation, the Moderator of the E.P Church, Ghana Right Reverend Dr Livingstone Buamah, charged past students to undertake a critical soul-searching and serious networking to mobilise resources for salvaging the school.
Rt. Rev Dr Buamah said nothing positive and significant could happen to the growth and the development of the school, if there is over reliance on external intervention and resources than the local mobilisation of past students as a way of reciprocating what they have gained from the school.
For his part, the Human Resource Director of the Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council, Mr Livingstone Dzokoto, said resources are now becoming increasingly limited throughout the world, adding that, " we should not expect any Father Christmas this days".
Mr Dzokoto stressed the need to provide adequate infrastructure for teachers on campus to draw them closer to students.
The brainstorming session generated some positive responses as an old student promised to finance the re-roofing of the administrative block while four others pledged ?20 million, ?5 million, ?500,000, and ?200,000 respectively.
In addition, the core group at the meeting ordered for the valuation on the re-roofing of the classroom blocks to ascertain the estimates for the cost to be borne by all year groups of the school.