Kwashieman to get AMA millennium school
The Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, has cut the sod for the commencement of the construction of a three-storey-18-unit classroom block for the Kwashieman Anglican Cluster of Schools in Accra.
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The block, which forms part of the Millennium City Schools project embarked on by the AMA, is estimated at GH¢2.3 million. On completion in February 2016, the block is expected to improve teaching and learning in the school.
Other facilities in the school project include a library, computer and science laboratories and a kindergarten.
So far, works on three millennium city school projects at Korle-Gonno, Gbegbeyise and Dansoman are progressing steadily.
Essence of project
At the ceremony, Mr Vanderpuije said the school would, as a priority, enrol children of school age in the area who were currently not in school.
According to him, AMA was determined to eradicate the situation where children stayed at home and engaged in streetism when they ought to be in school.
“AMA is working very hard to bring about improvement in education in the metropolis,” he said.
He assured the residents of Kwashieman that the school building would be completed and inaugurated for use by the appointed date.
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The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North, Mr Joe Appiah, commended AMA for striving to provide a number of social amenities in the metropolis.
“When you promise, you deliver and that is exactly what you have done,” he added.
The Metropolitan Director of Education, Mrs Angela Mensah, also commended AMA and the government for setting up schools in support of education in the country.
She urged management of the school and residents of the community to take good care of the building when it was completed.
Sandra Amoako, a JHS 3 student, expressed her gratitude to AMA and the government for making the effort to see education in her school improve.
She said it was painful to see children who ought to be in school on the streets and was glad that finally plans were afoot to get such unfortunate children in school.