The Akatsi North District Assembly in the Volta region has provided one thousand two hundred mono-desks for children in schools. The aim is to make the schools at the basic level attractive to children and to also help promote effective teaching and learning.
The District has a shortfall of one thousand four hundred and sixty-seven tables and chairs in its basic schools, a development that has affected quality of education in the area over the years. The District Chief Executive (DCE), Dr. Prince Amuzu Sodoke made this known when he handed over the furniture to the District Directorate of Education at Ave-Dakpa, the District capital.
He disclosed that the Assembly has put in a number of interventions to help promote education in the area including the provision of furniture for pupils.
Dr. Sodoke pointed out that the Assembly had provided new classrooms for schools, where pupils were studying either under trees or sheds and other relevant supports as the modest contribution of the Assembly to enhance education.
This, he stated, has started yielding positive results as some schools recorded as high as ninety –eight percent in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
He commended the Member of Parliament for the area, Mr. Peter Nortsu Kotoe, for using his share of the Common Fund to support development of educational infrastructure.
He was equally grateful to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GET fund) for supporting the assembly in terms of provisions of educational infrastructure.
The MP for Akatsi North, Mr. Nortsu Kotoe observed that all over the country, schools depended on central government to provide them with desks and chairs but the Akatsi North Assembly through its dynamic leadership have taken it upon themselves to also support the efforts of the government.
Mr. Nortsu Kotoe urged the District Directorate of Education to ensure that beneficiary schools take good care of the furniture to help prolong its lifespan.
According to him, one of the problems with basic schools is lack of maintenance culture, which leads to early destruction of property particularly those provided by the government.
The Akatsi North District Director of Education, Madam Paulina Slyn Eworde, who received the items, thanked the Assembly for the gesture, which she observed had come at the right time for the children to use.
In a related development, the Akatsi North District Assembly has also provided working equipment to thirty-two physically challenged persons in the District to enable them to embark on viable economic activities that would make them become economically self-reliance.
The DCE for the area, Dr. Sodoke, disclosed that the Assembly had identified four-hundred physically challenged whose needs are varied and that the Assembly was providing them with various tools that they would use to work and earn an income.
Presenting the tools; such as deep freezers, sewing machines, carpentry equipment, shoe making machines, farm implements and wheel chairs to the beneficiaries, Dr Sodoke said all those who have applied for assistance from the Assembly would be given the tools they have requested for.
The DCE disclosed that the assembly is currently sponsoring some of the PDWs to pursue their tertiary education in the various universities across the country.
Apart from fees and books which the assembly is paying for, it is also taking care of the medical bills of the PWDs. All these are to ensure that they receive quality education for a brighter future.
The Chairman of the Disability Committee of the Assembly, Mr. Godwin Gomado, who received the items on behalf of the beneficiaries, commended the Assembly for the support.
He said the items would be properly used to help transform the economic lives of the people as well as enable the physically challenged to also contribute meaningfully to the local economy.
Mr. Gomado, however, said the Assembly would constitute a committee, which would regularly monitor the beneficiaries to ensure that they put the items to effective use stressing that any of them found to have sold their working tools, would be prosecuted.
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