Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly supports basic schools with furniture
The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly has donated over 200 modern tables and chairs to support teaching and learning in 14 basic schools within the municipality.
The beneficiary schools included the Roman Ridge Basic School, Accra Stem Academy, Accra College of Education (ATRACO) Demonstration School and Bethany Methodist Basic School, among others.
The tables and chairs, which were designed to provide comfort for teachers in the classrooms, were also to support quality education for the schoolchildren in the municipality.
Speaking at the Ayawaso West Municipal Education Office in Accra, the Municipal Chief Executive of the Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly, Dr Michael Mensah, explained that the gesture was to augment the existing furniture in the various schools.
“Over the years, schools in the municipality have not been receiving any form of support.
This donation is to provide adequate chairs and tables to facilitate teaching and learning in the schools,” he explained.
Dr Mensah also pledged the government’s commitment to improving teaching and learning in the municipality, adding that infrastructural works were ongoing to put up classroom blocks in some of the schools within the municipality.
He entreated the beneficiary schools to take good care of the tables and chairs and noted that mono desks for schoolchildren will later be supplied to the schools.
Gratitude
The Director of Education, Ayawaso West Education Directorate, Judith Amoateng Anning, who received the items on behalf of the schools, in an interview, expressed profound gratitude for the gesture and noted that they were going to motivate heads of schools and teachers to enhance their work.
“This is a big surprise to us and we are extremely grateful. Inadequate furniture, especially for schoolchildren, is a major challenge and we have been reliably assured that our children will be supplied with more desks,” she said.
