Lower Manya Krobo Education Directorate supported with 950 desks

The Lower Manya Krobo New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for the 2024 election, Simon Kweku Tetteh, has supported the Lower Manya Krobo Education Directorate in the Eastern Region with 950 mono and dual desks. 

The desks are meant for distribution to the basic schools in the municipality which comprise 42 primary and 24 junior high schools, to reduce the furniture deficit in the schools.

Presenting the furniture to the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Director of Education, Samuel Kwesi Tettey, on behalf of the beneficiary schools, Mr Tetteh said the furniture presented to the education directorate was to be distributed to the various schools which needed furniture badly, for teaching and learning to start as the academic year began fully.    

He said when a child went to school he or she needed to be in a comfortable environment to study, and furniture was one of the most important things needed in the school.

Mr Tetteh who is also the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Chief Executive and a teacher by profession, said it was due to his desire to solve the furniture challenges facing the schools that he donated the 950 pieces of mono and the dual desks that would cater for over 1,800 students in the schools, adding “I am pushing hard to get more to solve the furniture problem in the municipality.”

Needs of teachers

He said being a teacher himself, he was aware of the challenges facing his colleague teachers, many of which he had solved and the furniture challenge which was the major one would be tackled seriously as soon as he mobilised funds for it.

He hinted that he had plans to introduce E-Learning materials as well as embark on projects in all the schools in Lower Manya Krobo, especially in the junior high schools, which would go a long way to promote a higher standard of education in the municipality.

He also pledged to present the best teacher in the municipality with a vehicle and establish a teachers’ scholarship for further studies next year if he became the Member of Parliament for the constituency.

“I am a colleague teacher like you and I know your needs as well as the needs of other stakeholders. I, therefore, urge you to support me to become the next MP and I shall not disappoint you,” the parliamentary candidate said.

Pressure

The Municipal Director, Mr Tettey, said there was pressure on the municipality with regard to furniture and hoped the situation would improve as time went on.

The Headmaster of the Nuaso Saint Clement Roman Catholic School, Emmanuel Kwablah Annor, who spoke to the Daily Graphic, said he was very grateful to Mr Tetteh, but pleaded for more to cater for the furniture needs of all the schools in the municipality.

“Actually, the parliamentary candidate has done well with the 950 pieces of both mono and the dual desks but the deficit in the schools is very huge and it affects effective teaching and learning one way or the other,” Mr Annor emphasised.

He said out of 179 students in his school, he could cater for only 60 students. He, therefore, appealed to individuals, civil society organisations, as well as non-governmental organisations and philanthropists to come to the aid of the schools in the municipality.