The Ho Municipal Assembly has, over the past four years, invested in infrastructural development for schools, particularly, Basic and Junior High schools, which have been completed and handed over to the institutions at separate ceremonies in the Municipality.
The projects were funded under the District Assembly Common Fund and the District Participatory Assessment Team Fund, with some communities supporting the projects with communal labour to help the Assembly achieve its objective of addressing the infrastructural deficit in identifiable schools in the community.
The Acting Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ho, Mr. Prosper Pi-Bansah, who handed over a six-unit single storey classroom block to the Ho-Fiave MA Basic School, said the design of the new facility took into consideration many factors, and included offices, washrooms and a teachers’ common room. This had replaced an old dilapidated wooden structure, which served as a death trap.
Mr. Pi-Bansah noted, however, with regret that whenever the government provided facilities for institutions and communities, the authorities normally failed to protect such structures, and urged the school authorities to adopt a maintenance culture that would help protect the facility and prolong its life span.
The Acting MCE for Ho assured the people of the government’s commitment to ensure that deprived schools were provided with the needed infrastructure, therefore, the Assembly’s determination to meet the various infrastructure challenges confronting schools in the area.
He stressed that the government was determined to provide free education to all children of school going age without discrimination, hence, investment in school infrastructure could not be over emphasised.
The Ho MCE also handed a three-unit classroom block to the Ho-Heve MA Basic School, lauding the communal spirit of the chiefs and people of the area, which he noted contributed to the early completion of the project. He asked the management of the school to ensure that the facility was protected for the benefit of both present and future generations.
Mr. Pi-Bansah, who also handed over a three-unit classroom block to the Nyive Basic School, disclosed that the project, which was awarded in June 2019, was completed in November 2020, with an amount of GH¢245,000 from the District Assembly Common Fund, and has a staff common room, an office, and a toilet facility.
Mr. Pi-Bansah urged the pupils and students to take advantage of opportunities available to them and learn hard to enable them to prepare adequately to take over leadership in future.
He noted that the future looks bright and warned them however to strictly adhere to the coronavirus protocol in order not to contract the virus.
The Ho Municipal Director of Education, Mr. Mathew Atsrim, lauded the contractors for the work done, saying the facilities were disability-friendly, and urged pupils and students to learn hard so as to justify the investment the government and parents were making in their education.
The Headmistress of Ho-Fiave MA Basic School, Madam Beauty Akpekor, disclosed that adults who did not get the opportunity to acquire basic education were expressing interest to enrol in the school, including market women, and appealed to the Assembly to provide more school infrastructure to enable an increase in enrolment.
The Chief of the area, Togbe Adzimah IV, thanked the Ho MCE and the Assembly fpr walking their talks, as promises made to build a new classroom for the school in the community have been delivered, and promised that the community would own the facility and protect it at all times.
The Chief of Ho- Heve, Togbe Anikpi III, who commended the Assembly for the facility, noted that the population was rapidly increasing and the new classroom facility, as well as the existing structures, would not be enough to accommodate children interested in going to school, and appealed to the Assembly for more of classrooms to increase enrolment in the school.
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