The lives of students and teaching staff of Abeberese M/A basic school in the Asunafo North district in the Ahafo Region are in absolute danger as they teach and study under a death-trap mud building.
The school constructed in 1975 with mud by the community has never seen any major renovation, thereby deteriorating to near collapse.
Oyerepa News Ahafo regional correspondent, Sulley Dramani reports that even though the classes start from kindergarten to JHS, the classrooms are only 6, therefore, students and pupils are being merged to study while those in the lower primary study in someone’s uncomplicated building.
According to the reporter, the mud classrooms are tattered and their roofs are ripped off. Academic work is disrupted whenever it rains.
The school lacks adequate furniture. A classroom of over (30) students has (7) desks forcing students to sit four (4) on one dual desk.
“The difficult state of the school building is discouraging parents from enrolling their children while others have withdrawn their kids for fear that the school building will collapse on them. This has reduced the population of the school,” he adds.
Staff, students and parents of Betire Abeberese M/A Basic School are passionately appealing to government and non-governmental organizations for basic educational infrastructure.
They’ve called on various stakeholders and Organizations to provide an ICT facility to help improve technology in the area.
According to them, this will offer Basic school children in the area the opportunity to compete equally with their colleagues in other parts of the country.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com / Sulley Dramani
