The residents of Sorbelle-Bullu, a suburb of the Sorbelle community in the Sissala West District, have expressed delight over interventions by the District Assembly towards improving access to education and enhancing teaching and learning in the suburb.
The interventions included three-unit classroom and kindergarten blocks, and the inclusion of the school in the School Feeding Programme.
The Assembly had also assured the school’s management of supplying furniture to the school to address its furniture deficit and guarantee a conducive learning environment.
The interventions followed concerns by the community during the 2024 electioneering campaign about abandoned educational projects and other challenges confronting the community.
Speaking at Sorbelle-Bullu during the commissioning of the 3-unit classroom block, Mr Fuseini Yaljia, Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) Chairperson, thanked the government and the Sissala West District Assembly for the interventions.
He said the school would help nurture responsible human resources to contribute to the community and Ghana’s development.
Mr Yaljia indicated that the community understood the importance of education, which informed their request for the educational infrastructure in that suburb.
The community, however, appealed for a borehole at the school to prevent the pupils from going home to drink water, which disrupted teaching and learning as some refused to return to school.
Mr Fuseini Abudu Gbene, Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), said the projects formed part of commitments made by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party to address their development needs if given the mandate to govern.
He said the three-unit classroom block project was started by the Northern Development Authority (NDA) some years back, and the Assembly saw the need to complete it through the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
Mr Gbene explained that the school had been included in the school feeding programme through the interventions of the Assembly and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, which encouraged school attendance among the children.
In a related development, the Assembly commissioned a three-unit classroom block at Nimoro, also funded through the DACF, to improve access to appropriate teaching and learning facilities.
At Duwie, another three-unit classroom block funded through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) was completed and commissioned to address concerns about the poor condition of the existing school infrastructure.
The chief and people of the Duwie and Nimoro communities thanked the MP and the District Assembly for the interventions.
Meanwhile, the Assembly also commissioned and handed over 1,000 mono-desks to the Sissala West District Education Directorate as part of efforts to address the furniture deficit in schools across the district.
Speaking at a brief ceremony at Gwollu to present the furniture, Mr Mohammed Adam Sukparu, the MP for Sissala West Constituency, said the furniture formed the first batch of 2,000 mono-desks expected from GETFund.
He said the Assembly was also expecting an additional 1,000 dual desks through the DACF to further augment the intervention by the GETFund, to together serve 4,000 pupils and students in the district.
Mr Supkaru, also Deputy Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, appealed to the GES to ensure fair distribution of the furniture among the affected schools, including the Dr Hilla Limann Senior High School.
The Sissala West District Education Directorate thanked the MP and the District Assembly for the interventions, as they would help improve the education sector of the district.