Dzomoa(E/R), July 7, GNA - Eleven boreholes constructed by Plan Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization(NGO) at a cost of GHC 188,352.00 for 11 selected schools in deprived communities in the Upper Manya District, were handed over to the communities on Tuesday at Dzomoa, near Asesewa. The facilities are to help improve sanitation in those schools. The Upper Manya District Chief Executive, Mr Joseph T. Angmor appealed to parents in the district to reciprocate the large investment being made in education by the government and NGOs by encouraging their children to go to school.

He advised them to desist from withdrawing their children from school to serve them on their farms or the market or to assist them in their fishing business on school days. Mr Angmor said the Assembly had started compiling the list of people who wanted to be sponsored to Teacher Training Colleges, so that they would come back and teach in the district to help solve the shortage of teachers facing the district.

He therefore called on pupil teachers and second cycle school graduates in the district who want to become teachers to submit their names to the District Directorate of Education for sponsorship. Mr Angmor said since about 90 per cent of the people in the district were farmers, the assembly would be spending a substantial part of its resources towards the maintenance of feeder roads, to enable the farmers to get their harvest to the marketing centres. The Country Director of Plan Ghana, Mr Samuel Paulos, said the project was funded by the Plan affiliate in Japan, while the beneficiary communities offered communal labour for the implementation of the project. He expressed the hope that, the provision of water would help improve the sanitation conditions in the beneficiary communities and the schools. He also expressed optimism that the facility would help improve teaching and learning in the schools.

Mr Paulos appealed to the School Management Committees in the beneficiary communities, to help the communities to maintain the boreholes.