Ghana: Essakyir T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School faces acute water shortage

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“The only borehole supplying about 1,251 students and over 80 teaching and non-teaching staff of the school is very salty and difficult to use.” 

File photo: T.I. Ahmadiyya SHS Kumasi

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Source/Credit: Ghana News Agency
By Afedzi Abdullah/GNA | March 10, 2017

The students and staff of Essakyir T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School (SHS) in Ekumfi District of the Central Region are facing an acute water problem, which is disrupting teaching and learning at the school.

Mr Mohammed Quantson, Headmaster of the school in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), described the situation as one that was unbearable for school authorities as it affected academic work.

The school spends about Gh¢900.00 every week on water and that, he said was taking a toll on the finances of the school.

He said the school has since its establishment not been connected to the Ghana Water Company’s system and appealed to the Government to help bring portable water to the school.

“The only borehole supplying about 1,251 students and over 80 teaching and non-teaching staff of the school is very salty and difficult to use,” he said.

Mr Quantson also mentioned the increasing student population as another problem and expressed fear that overcrowding in the dormitories could be worse, indicating that “it will be a great relief to us if the dormitory block is completed for us”.

Other challenges enumerated by the headmaster included inadequate classrooms, staff accommodation and poor road network in the school.

He has therefore appealed to old students, non- governmental organisations, philanthropists and other corporate institutions to come to the aid of the school.

GNA


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