NGO Undertaking beautification and boundary demarcation programme

Bole, May 23, GNA - The Partners in Participatory Development (PAPADEV), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) operating in the Northern Region, is undertaking a school beautification and boundary demarcation programme to improve upon the school environment in the Bole and West Gonja Districts.

Under the programme, 10 schools in the two districts would be supplied with inputs including wheel barrows, watering cans, buckets, spades and improved seedlings worth 1.5 million cedis each from a fund made available through the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA).

Addressing the closing session of a two-day training workshop on skills in boundary demarcation and school beautification in Bole, on Monday, Mr Eddy Telley, Executive Secretary of PAPADEV, said the workshop was designed to assist the beneficiary schools to develop strategies and time frame for undertaking the programme.

The participants, drawn from the 10 beneficiary schools, discussed common environmental problems facing their schools and corrective measures such as tree planting to check erosion and maintaining good sanitation within the school compound.

Other issues raised at the workshop were encroachment of school lands and the perennial destruction of school buildings by rainstorms.