Sekondi School for the Deaf needs accommodation

The  Sekondi School for the Deaf (SEKDEAF) is accommodating both girls and boys  on a one-storey block  because of inadequate accommodation facilities for them.

The boys occupy the top floor while the girls are on the ground floor.

The headmaster of the school, Mr Kofi Oti Frimpong, who made this known to the Ghana News Agency last Tuesday,  has, therefore,  appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to provide  separate accommodation for the two different groups of  pupils to avoid any untoward occurrence, stressing that the situation “is not the best.”

“The students are human beings and they have emotions and feelings and if a student can not control his feelings and enters the girls’ dormitory, what do you think will happen?” he queried

The school currently has a student population of 328.

He said there was a girls’ dormitory project by the GETFund  which had  stalled since 1992  and appealed to authorities concerned to fast-track its completion to accommodate the girls separately from the boys.

The only deaf and dumb school in the Western Region,  established in 1971, has no administrative block, assembly and dining halls, while the only school bus has  broken down.

Mr Frimpong said the school had not received the school feeding grant for the second term, adding that, “we recently received about GH¢2,500 from the government being the arrears for the first term.”

“Even that money has been used to pay our creditors because we have been crediting food to feed the children for a very long time.”

He, therefore, appealed to philanthropists, non-governmental organisations and corporate bodies to  come to their aid.