Five schools selected for NEPAD feeding programme

Tefle (VR), Aug. 30, GNA - Five schools has been selected to benefit from the NEPAD school feeding programme in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region, Mrs Cate Aku Aglah, District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area has disclosed.

In a speech read for her at the sixth anniversary celebration of the Covenant Preparatory School at Tefle in the Volta Region, Mrs Aglah said, however that, although the programme was yet to commence, delivery of materials to start with the Agbakofe kindergarten, primary and basic schools would start on a pilot basis, when the new school year began next month.

The celebration has "Discipline: An Indispensable Tool For Development", as its theme.

Mrs Aglah said the issue of indiscipline had taken centre stage in our development process, and added that, "indiscipline goes beyond the borders of traditional truancy played by pupils and students of our educational institution."

The DCE said lawlessness had become so rampant that, estate developers were constructing buildings anywhere without authorization, so did people defecate anywhere they liked and so on. According to Mrs Aglah, lawlessness scared off investors and this affected development.

Mrs Aglah pointed out that indiscipline did not border only on criminal activities, lamenting that littering of waste materials also constituted indiscipline.

She said the introduction of the capitation grant had led to the increase in student enrolment in the district, adding that, as at now, student enrolment stood at 18,189.

Mrs Aglah said the district had received 229,320 million cedis as capitation grant.

Mrs Seline Bright Okuto, South Tongu District Director of Education, advised parents that, good quality education was the only important legacy they could leave for their wards.

Mrs Okuto regretted that even though physical and consumable properties left behind by deceased persons most invariably generated controversy, litigation in families, individuals could face the challenges of this fast-growing technological world, if they depended on quality of education.

In a related development, Rev. Gideon Adu Ofoe, Director of the Total Child Development School at Goi in the Dangme East District, reminded parents and guardians that to achieve academic excellence for their wards, they should give them quality education.

Speaking at the school's Second Annual Speech and Prize-Giving Day under the theme: "Extending Quality Education to the Rural Child, the Role of Stakeholders," Ofoe called on all and sundry to assist the rural child to benefit from quality education.