More than 600 pupils attend classes under trees at Kawampe

Six hundred and sixty-eight pupils of the Local Authourity  Junior High School at Kawampe in the Kintampo North Municipality of Brong-Ahafo attend classes under trees.

Mr. Mathias Taasun, Assembly Member of Kawampe Electoral Area, who  told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Wednesday said a severe rainstorm destroyed the school’s  structure in 2008.

He said the school authorities reported the matter to the authorities of the Municipal Assembly, who promised to construct a new six-unit classroom block with an office and store but had failed to honour the promise.

Mr. Taasun said the current situation compelled the school authorities to close  the school during every rainy season, adding, out of the 28 pupils who sat for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) only three of them passed.

Last year, when fire gutted the school’s office and burnt all the teaching and learning materials it was reported to the Municipal Assembly for assistance but no positive response had been received, the Assembly member stated.

He expressed concern that only two schools at Portor and Gurumpe in the Circuit, which is made up of eight towns and villages, including Kawampe, Dawadawa, Kadriso, Alhassan-Akuraa, Kwarawura-Akuraa and Benkrom, were beneficiaries of  the School Feeding Programme.

Mr. Taasun noted with regret that the Kawampe Community had been neglected in terms of development for a long period and appealed to the Municipal Assembly to go to their aid.

He said school children were often knocked down by vehicles in the town and called for the erection of speed ramps to reduce the incidence.
Source: GNA