By: Samuel Ayammah
Government is on course to eliminating all schools under trees in the Sene West District of the Bono East Region.
The Sene District through the GetFund and Internally Generated Fund are embarking on massive construction of classroom blocks in all basic schools in the communities aimed at eliminating schools under trees in the district.
This was made known when the Bono East Regional Minister, Kwasi Adu-Gyan, inspected ongoing projects in the area.
Generally, the phenomenon of “schools under trees” is a situation where communities mostly rural do not have properly constructed classrooms or structures for classes, and hence teaching and learning occur under a tree or trees.
This puts the lives of students and teachers in danger, and also subjects teaching and learning to several distractions including rains, sunshine, sounds from birds, and animals among others.
Currently, the Sene West District Assembly has constructed over nine-unit classroom blocks with ancillary facilities in Lemu. The assembly has also constructed about six-unit classroom block at Lailai Girls Model Junior High School.
The DCE for Sene West, Mr. John Nyaaba, said government was determined to improving access to quality education for all school-going children in every community. Hence the investment of huge sums of money to build classroom blocks and ancillary facilities to create a conducive environment for teaching and learning.
The Bono East Regional Minister, Mr. Kwasi Adu-Gyan, expressed satisfaction over the provision of physical infrastructure in the area.
Huge furniture deficit in the various basic schools in the district remains a challenge. The Assembly said even though it has donated over 4 thousand furniture to the schools in the last two years, it’s still not enough, hence the need for philanthropists, NGOs and benevolent organizations to come to their aid.