PTA funds the construction of GH¢200,000.00 teachers' bungalow

By C.M Boateng, GNA
Asante-Mampong (Ash), June 28, GNA - The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of St. Monica's Senior High School at Asante Mampong, has cut a sod to begin the construction of a GH¢200,000.00 teachers' bungalow for the school.

The three-storey edifice, when completed would accommodate twenty teachers of the school.

The Reverend Emmanuel Kwame Kwakye, Vice Chairman of the PTA, said the project was to help ease teachers' accommodation problems facing the school.

The Rev. Kwakye expressed disagreement with the directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES) that PTAs could not impose any levy on their members without prior approval by the GES.

He said the directive was killing parents' eagerness and initiative to support the infrastructure development of schools and appealed to the GES to reconsider that decision and be flexible with the directive.

The Rev. Kwakye said it was ironical, that politicians, especially those in government, in one breadth constantly appealed to the public to contribute towards quality education in Ghana, but in another breadth also made it difficult for public-spirited citizens to do so because of certain ambiguous polices and directives.

Mr Kwadwo Agyenim - Boaten, the PTA Chairman mentioned some of the development projects the PTA had already done for the school since its formation in 1946.

They included conversion of all the pit-latrines in the school into water-closets, construction of five Bungalows for the teachers and provision of incinerator for the school.

Others were payment of the cost of servicing and maintenance of the school's water-tanker that supplied the school with water, fencing of the school compound, provision of generator and a borehole to provide constant water supply to the school.

Nana Agyei Brempong, the Chief of Daaho, assisted by the Most Rev. Prof. Daniel Yinka Sarfo, Archbishop of Internal Province of Ghana &Primate of church of Province of West Africa, cut the sod to signify commencement of the project.

GNA