Teachers face accommodation problems at Okanta

Teachers of the Odumase Okanta Presbyterian Basic School in the East Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region are facing accommodation difficulties that make them walk several kilometres to school.

Mr Owusu-Adjei Nattor, Assistant head teacher, has, therefore, appealed to the Education Directorate in the Municipality to construct teachers’ quarters in the town to promote effective teaching and learning.

Mr Nattor told the Ghana News Agency at Okanta, near Odumase, that there were not enough rental houses so almost all the teachers were living out of the town.

This is because buildings in the school’s environment were designed and constructed as family homes.

Mr Nattor explained that only storage rooms or teenagers’ rooms were sometimes available and these were small places not convenient for couples or tenants with children.

The school, built in 1946 by the community, has a population of 300.

Source: GNA