Tema, June 15, GNA – The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Albert Boakye Okyere has donated 716 furniture to schools in the municipality as part of broader measures to improve academic performance in the municipal.
Mr Okyere provided 300 dual desks, 150 tables for kindergarten, 250 chairs and 16 teacher’s tables and chairs, which was handed over to the municipal education directorate for onward distribution to the schools.
He also presented “5,000 face shields and 2,000 school uniforms to the directorate to be given to the children to reduce the burden of the parents in the municipal”.
According to him, some of the schools were having challenges with tables and chairs but there would be more to come in the days ahead.
On maintenance, the MCE advised the teachers and the children to handle the property like their own, for its durability warn against the Ghanaian attitude of not handling state property well should come to an end.
The MCE said, he would be disappointed if the furniture are mishandle and doesn’t last to serve its purpose at the various schools.
Madam Beatrice Opare Acheampong, Head of Supervision and Monitoring at the Municipal Education Office, Ashaiman said, they have over 5,000 children in the municipality, the classrooms are their major challenge but with the chairs and tables they would manage it.
She said all the public schools were in need of furniture, especially the kindergarten and primary sector, therefore they would share it according to Ashaiman cluster of schools, and Presbyterian, Clementina and Mustapha schools, it would be shared equally to all.
GNA