Kwahu Afram Plains North to get Community SHS

THE Eastern Regional Minister,  Mr Antwi Boasiako-Sekyere, has cut the sod for the construction of a four-storey Community Senior High School (SHS) at Mem-Chemfre, a rural community in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District.

The community school  is strategically located to benefit other surrounding areas such as Agortime, Avatime, Agodeke and Bruben, among other farming and fishing communities, along the Volta Lake, as well as people of the Dwarf and the Dodi-Deja islands in the district.

The construction of the facility will be done by Aquila International Limited, a Ghanaian construction firm, which will comprise a 24-unit classroom block, two libraries and four science laboratories.

It will also contain 11 separate offices, 12 stores, two Information and Communications Technology (ICT) centres and a 12-seater toilet facility.

Addressing the elated gathering, Mr Boasiako-Sekyere announced that the government had the people of those communities at heart and, therefore, endeavoured to let them enjoy some of the national cake.

He said the government would not fail to offer children the best of quality education so that they would become assets for the development of their community and the country as a whole.

The lead contractor, Mr Matthew Nyarko, said the construction work, which is expected to be completed in 18 months, would provide employment for the community members, since they would form the labour force for the project. 

The District Director of Education, Mr Gabriel Adu, welcomed the intervention and implored parents in Mem-Chemfre and the surrounding communities to endeavour to send their children to school, since education was the best gift they could bequeath their children.

The Ghana News Agency (GNA) gathered that the community had only one primary and a junior high school, which served over 500 pupils.

Appreciating the efforts of the government for the community SHS, the chief of the area also appealed for more primary and JHS blocks to meet the educational  needs of the increasing number of children in the area. —  GNA