Work begins on library complex for State Exp. school

Kumasi (Ashanti), 30th July 99 ?

The Assistant Director of Education in charge of Planning and Statistics at the Kumasi Metropolitan Education office, Mr S.K.

Amankwah, on Wednesday cut the sod for work to begin on a new library complex estimated to cost 60 million cedis for basic one and two of the State Experimental School in Kumasi.

The library, being funded by the school and parents, will accommodate 100 pupils at a time and will have an office, washroom and a computer room.

The school has so far raised 29 million cedis through a levy of 15,000 cedis per child. The old boys have expressed their preparedness to give assistance.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Reverend Kwaku Kwarteng, Chairman of the School Management Committee (SMC), said the project is dear not only to the government but to all who are interested in education.

Rev Kwarteng said work on the construction of additional classrooms for the basic two section, which came to a standstill, has resumed and that the ground floor of the one-storeyed building comprising six classrooms would be completed before the next academic year.

He said originally the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) was to provide four classrooms, an office and a store at a cost of 40 million cedis but the school contributed an additional 15 million cedis to provide two classrooms.

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