New school block for Adjei Kojo Sraha community
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema West, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, has cut the sod for the construction of a three-unit classroom block for the Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA) Sraha Basic School.
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The project, according to the contractor, is expected to be completed in three months and would comprise an office for the head teacher, six washrooms for the pupils and a water system.
At the ceremony last Tuesday, Mr Ahenkorah said in December 2022, Cargill Ghana, a Cocoa Processing and Licensed Buying Company and CARE International Ghana handed over a six-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities to the Adjei Kojo community in the Tema West Municipality which hitherto had only one public basic school.
He said it came to his attention that due to the lack of accommodation, learners who recently completed basic six at the school had their Junior High School lessons in the staff common room meant for facilitators in the primary department, after some parents refused to relocate their wards to other schools in the community for JHS education.
He said touched by an appeal from the Headmistress of the school, Irene Adorku, parents and some learners during a visit to the school, he lobbied and got the Ministry of Education to help in building an additional JHS block through the Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcome Project (GALOP) to enable graduating basic six learners in the Sraha community to continue their JHS education in the same school.
The MP said the project had been designed such that it could be expanded in future to cater for the growing population of the community and the Adjei Kojo Electoral Area.
Mr Ahenkorah expressed optimism that through the intervention, children around the Sraha community in the Adjei Kojo Electoral Area, which is the biggest community in Tema West, would receive quality basic education, which would significantly contribute to the development of the community and the nation.
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The Municipal Chief Executive of Tema West, Felicia Edem Attipoe, said quality was paramount and urged the community members to monitor the contractor during the construction period, to ensure that the project was delivered according to specification.
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She said the assembly would also support the project with the necessary logistics upon completion, for children to get early access to quality education to prepare them for senior high school education.
The Tema West Municipal Director of Education, Isaac MacCarthy-Mensah, said the establishment of the school as a model school in the municipality had helped in shaping the lives of children in the Adjei Kojo community.
The headmistress of the school, Irene Adorku, expressed appreciation to the MP for coming to their aid and promised that the facility would be used for its purpose and be maintained.
The Chief of Sraha, Nii Abo Commey, commended the MP for the intervention, adding that it would contribute to education access in the community.
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