Sissala East honours teachers

The Sissala East District in the Upper West Region has honoured a number of teaching and non-teaching staff in the district for their contribution to education in the area.

The district has also donated assorted items to 90 needy, brilliant schoolchildren in the district at the Best Teacher Awards programme at Tumu.

A 34-year-old teacher at the Kwapun Primary School, Mr Iddris Kparibaga Bayuoni, received the Overall Best Teacher award for working with dedication and selflessness.

He was praised and honoured for working in the deprived community where many teachers had refused posting. 

Citation

A citation presented to him said, he facilitated the construction of a kitchen for the school which made it possible for the pupils to benefit from the School Feeding Programme.

It indicated further that Mr Bayuoni, who  has been teaching at least four classes for the past two years, he was posted to the school  played a key role that led to an increase in the school’s population from 58 to 106. 

For his award, he received a fridge, a computer and a gas cylinder.

The awards scheme for teachers in the district had been shelved for more than 10 years, and it was revived this year through the initiative of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sissala East, Madam Alijata Sulemana.

Addressing the ceremony, she said, “The way out of poverty and social deprivation is through the walls of the classroom. Education is a vital tool for individuals to achieve their dreams in life. That is why the government has not relented in its efforts at investing resources in the education sector to enable people in communities such as ours, to access quality education”.

Government’s commitment

She said the government was committed to giving every teacher a laptop for their research work to enable them to render quality service in the classroom to improve upon education in the country.

She said the upgrading of teacher training institutions into diploma-awarding tertiary institutions, was another effort by the government to upgrade the standard of teaching in the country.

The District Director of Education, Mr George Guri, said the School Feeding Programme had been a major attraction to schoolchildren to stay in school and complete their education.

Madam Sulemana gave out school bags, a pair of canvas, 10 exercise books and a mathematical set to 90 pupils.