The Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC) has presented desks to the deprived Mueter D/A Basic School in the Luomu Electoral Area of Shai Osu-Doku in the Greater Accra Region.
The school, which has over 250 students and pupils, can hardly boast of desks, lighting system, water, computers, and other facilities to enable effective teaching and learning.
Although it was established in 1984 to serve the surrounding communities and villages, where the people are mainly farmers – crops and animals – not much had been achieved in terms of infrastructure.
Ironically, a Junior High School (JHS) building provided by the District Assembly barely five years ago can best be described as a death-trap, due to poor construction work.
The contractor, as a matter of fact, failed to even complete the building, as the ceiling was not done and cracks have developed on the walls, with the concrete floor eroding.
Considering the distances that students have to cover every morning to school, and the reptiles on campus, the GAFCSC’s donation was welcomed and deemed as most appropriate, especially in this time of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The GAFCSC Commandant, Rear Admiral Moses Bieck-Baffour, presented the desks, numbering over 50, to the Headmistress of the school on Monday.
He said the donation was a result of the kind courtesy of the Forestry Commission and Ghana Marine Authority.
The Commandant explained that the school was selected based a long lasting relationship that it had built with the GAFCSC, since the school is used for training junior officers.
The Headmistress, Rose Brimah, in appreciation, said the issue of desks was one of her headaches when it was announced that schools should reopen, due to the social distancing protocol.
“If I look at the condition of the desks I have, and the quantity I have, then it is going to be difficult for me,” she said. “The donation is timely, so we say a big thank you and we appreciate this kind gesture. In fact, we are going to put this into good use. We will take good care of them so that they last longer, so that we do not come and request for desks in the shortest possible time.”
She promised they would do their possible best for the students pass their exams, and like Oliver Twist, more help was requested, since their challenges were enormous.
The most pressing of the challenges is that they do not have computers to teach the students, thus the school population of 250 competes over two desks and one laptop.
Madam Brimah, however, appealed to the College and the general public for anybody in a position to help to come to their aid to make the study of ICT easier.
The Commandant, in response, indicated the College is a training institution of the Ghana Armed Forces and it is not into corporate activity, though it does community work as part civil-military relationship, and “I think this is in that same spirit.”
Mr Bernard Asamoah Boateng, Executive Director, Wildlife Division, on behalf of the Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Lawyer Owusu Afriyie, urged that the desks are put into a good use, adding that in the future, some of the pupils would come back to continue with the good work to maintain the forests and the wildlife.
He encouraged the school to take the students on a domestic tourism of the Shai Hills Resource Reserve.
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