440 schools built from HIPC fund nationwide

Bima (Ash), Oct. 1, GNA - Mr Osei Kwame Prempeh, MP for Nsuta-Kwamang, said on Tuesday that the government has built 440 classroom blocks nationwide from the HIPC Relief Fund this year. Inaugurating a school project for the Bima Methodist Primary School at Bima in the Sekyere West District, said the projects executed with the fund has justified the government's decision for embracing the HIPC initiative.

The school, which has an office, a library, store and a staff room, cost 320 million cedis, replaces a dilapidated building constructed in 1948.

The MP, who had earlier donated 1,000 exercise books to the school, said he had sponsored 50 students in various secondary schools from his share of the Common Fund.

Mr Thomas Edward Atakora, District Chief Executive, said the Assembly received 1.5 billion cedis from the HIPC Fund, which was used for the construction of a classroom block for the Asaam JSS and an abattoir at Mampong.

The Assembly has also built a three unit classroom block for Asuboaso JSS, a 12-seater aqua-privy toilet at Kwamang and is constructing a dormitory for the Amaniampong Secondary School.

The DCE appealed to the people take the education of their children seriously and said an increased enrolment and proper maintenance of the block would be a condition for the provision of a teachers' bungalow requested by the people.