HEPSS calls for emergency assistance to rehabilitate facilities

Hohoe, May 14, GNA - Mr Teddy Ofori, Assistant Headmaster of the Hoh= oe EP Senior High School, (HEPSS) has called for prompt and massive assistan= ce to fix the school's facilities destroyed in a rainstorm recently. He said the situation was having adverse effects on teaching, learni= ng and discipline in the school.

Mr Ofori told the Ghana News Agency that his bungalow, the Girls' Dormitory and the school's garage built since the establishment of the school in 1961, suffered the worst damage. He said more than 150 girls displaced as a result are being temporar= ily accommodated in the newly built computer laboratory and Visual Arts Department. The dining hall has also been partitioned to serve as classrooms for=

teaching Home Economics, Business Accounting and Business Secretariat classes in turns amidst noise and smoke from the kitchen. Mr Ofori said the situation has resulted in 450 students out of the total 880 becoming day students.

Mr Ofori said with the exception of the headmaster, the Senior Housemaster, House Mistress and the chaplain, all the other teachers were=

staying outside campus. He commended the Hohoe Municipal Assembly for donating 10 bundles of=

roofing sheets and the School's Parent Teacher Association for their assistance in keeping the school running. Mr Ofori, therefore, called on the Ghana Education Trust Fund, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) corporate institutions and NGOs to go to the aid of the school.