Krachi West Assembly to Establish Model School for Island Communities

The Krachi District Assembly has resolved to establish one model school from kindergarten to Junior High School (JHS) in one of the island communities, as a way of addressing the difficulties children of school going age face in the area.

The District Chief Executive, Mr. Moses Kwame Punyah, who disclosed this at the general meeting of The Assembly at Kete-Krachi said the District Directorate of Education had already been contacted to conduct feasibility studies to determine the location of the model school that would be freely accessible to all communities.

Mr. Punyah said as soon as the education directorate completes its study as to where the school would be situated, work would start, stressing that the situation where pupils and students travelled from island communities to school at the District capital was not safe, hence the decision to establish the model school to put an end to the difficulties.

He said the Assembly had built six unit classroom blocks at Tokpo Kope and Adzra Kope as a way of addressing the problem and said it was the conviction of the Assembly that when the model school project was successfully executed, it would help promote education in the island communities in the area.

The DCE disclosed that the Assembly was worried over the future of the students who lived in rented premises to attend school especially when there were reports that some of the female students were getting pregnant and dropping out of school. To him, therefore, the establishment of the model schools would help to stem the tide.

Mr. Punyah said the Assembly would also establish special motivational packages for teachers who would be teaching in the schools in the island communities to enable them to put in their best, adding that the incentive package would be extended to cover the entire district so as to attract and retain teachers in the area.

The DCE also announced the decision by the Assembly to build five multi-million storey building hostel facility for the Midwifery Training College at Kete-Krachi, to help address the accommodation challenges of the students.

Mr. Punyah said the Assembly had decided to use the District Development Fund (DDF) as the major source of funding of the project and that the hostel project was one of the prioritized development activities of the Assembly.

According to him, land would never be a problem because the traditional authorities had already allocated a large parcel of land for the development of the College. The DCE promised to work on the feeder roads in the district to make them accessible.

Mr. Punyah also disclosed that the Assembly in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy was providing solar energy to the island communities to ensure that pupils and students have access to light to study in the evenings as well as promote other economic activities in the area.