Fiapre (B/A) Feb. 16, GNA - A classroom at the Fiapre Methodist Primary and Junior High School in the Sunyani Municipality which has the capacity to take 44 students currently accommodates 90 during classes hours. The congestion is hindering effective teaching and learning because students have to sit in pairs to learn, Mr. Stephen Asante, the headmaster told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview on Monday. Mr. Asante also expressed worry that the school, with a population of 900, did not have places of convenience and sources of potable drinking water.

Consequently, some children, he said, defecate on the school compound thus posing a serious health threat to them. He has, therefore, appealed to NGOs, philanthropists and good spirited individuals and organisations to go to the aid of the school.

Meanwhile, the Australian Embassy has given a grant of GHC 13,776,000 to the African Media Aid/Global Media Foundation, a Sunyani based Non-Governmental Organisation, (NGO) to construct a two-unit and block and renovate four unit classroom blocks for the school. Mr. Raphael Godlove Ahenu, Chief Executive Officer of the NGO, told the He said 25 basic schools in deprived areas were expected to benefit from the programme which comprised community libraries, Information Communication Centers. Scholarships would also be provided for at least 500 students. Mrs. Lovelace Kpogo, project coordinator, said schools in remote communities would also benefit from the project and expressed the hope that contractors on the project would execute the project finish on time.