The Akatsi-North District Assembly has handed over 500 dual desks to the District Directorate of Education for distribution to schools that lacked adequate classroom furniture to address the severe shortage in basic schools in the district.
Handing over the furniture to the Akatsi-North District Director of Education at Avedakpa, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Simon Peter Kofi Ofosu, said, the Assembly was committed to efforts at promoting quality education in the area, and called on stakeholders to collaborate with it.
Mr. Ofosu said the Assembly would also provide additional 500 dual desks to basic schools without adequate furniture before the end of the year, to end shortages in schools in the district.
According to the DCE, the delivery of the desks was a demonstration of the Assembly’s pledge to improve educational infrastructure in schools, and urged pupils to take advantage of the available opportunities to develop themselves.
He said the Assembly was dedicated to resolving the furniture crises in schools in the district, saying it recognised the important role adequate furniture played in the promotion of quality teaching and learning.
Mr. Ofosu stressed that the Assembly’s commitment to the educational welfare of pupils was unwavering, and assured that it would continue to work closely with the District Directorate of Education to ensure that problems hindering quality education would be tackled, including lack of classroom furniture.
He explained that his outfit’s determination to address the furniture challenges was in line with the government’s broader efforts to enhance education across the country.
The DCE said the dual desks would not only ease the difficulties pupils faced in the classrooms, but also contribute to creating an enabling environment that would promote effective teaching and learning.
Mr. Ofosu stressed that it was the hope of the Assembly that the furniture would help pupils to be focused in class, comfortable, and ensure overall educational experience that would lead to better academic outcomes.
He said the objective of the Assembly, in collaboration with the District Education Directorate, was to strengthen the system in the district, aimed at providing a solid foundation for the present and future generations to benefit from the better education, and urged students and pupils to learn hard to justify the investment being made.
Receiving the furniture, the Akatsi-North District Director of Education, Mr. Dominic Dzanado, thanked the Assembly for the gesture, and said the desks had come at the right time, when hundreds of pupils lacked classroom furniture, and would help address the problem.
Mr. Dzanado observed that the high interest the Assembly had shown in promoting quality education would go a long way in providing an attractive environment that would encourage more children to be in school.
