NEW CLASSROOM BLOCK FOR FREETOWN SCHOOLS COMPLEX (PAGE 40)

A GH¢80,000 school block for the Ho Freetown Local Authority Schools Complex has been inaugurated.
The project comprised a three-unit classroom block, an office, a store, a library, a staff common room and a two-unit kindergarten classroom block with an office, a store and a vault chamber toilet facility attached.
The project was initiated by a Ho-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Community Development Concern (CDC), with support from the Japan Embassy in Ghana, to underscore the objective of the NGO to support the poor and the vulnerable in the society.
According to the Headmistress of the schools complex, Ms Rose Asafokpe, the institution, located in a domain preserved for lepers, had attracted many children from far and near.
She added that the present enrolment of 81 pupils in the kindergarten, 188 in primary school and 26 at junior high school (JHS) level attested to the high demand for education in the area, where the disease was no more endemic.
She said lack of classrooms and furniture had delayed the approval of a JHS for the school and commended the CDC for soliciting the support of the Japanese Embassy for the project.
Ms Asafokpe appealed to the Ho Municipal Assembly and the Municipal Education Directorate to complement efforts of the NGO to provide the necessary facilities for the school.
In an address read on her behalf, the Ho Municipal Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ms Rosemond Keteku, charged all stakeholders in education in the area to ensure that the new facilities were used to raise output on the part of teachers and pupils.
She cautioned the community against using the school as a base for drug consumption, illicit sex and home for stray animals.
Ms Keteku also appealed to the Parent-Teacher Association of the school to check any deterioration of the new facilities by contributing to rehabilitate the building, should the need arise.
The Ho Municipal Co-ordinating Director, Mr Kofi Adjorlolo, pledged the support of the assembly at all times.
Mrs Ochlich expressed happiness that her dream had come true, saying that the CDC was committed to improving the lives of the poor and the vulnerable in the society.