Central Tongu: New Hope RC School needs classrooms, furniture

Pupils of the New Hope RC School kneel in the sand during lessons. The school has no classrooms, desks and other amenities to make learning attractive. There are no trained teachers but leaders of Bakpa Dzave in the Adidome district through their own efforts, ensure the school is running, regardless of the challenging situation.

 

The Bakpa-Dzave community in the Adidome district started the School 9 years ago through a self-help project. The school now has pupils in the kindergarten up to JHS 2. It has 4 SHS graduates as teachers  and they happen to be natives of the community. They believe that they must contribute their own quota to the well-being of the younger ones, besides this is their home and only they can make it better now before help comes.

Mr. Delight Akah is secretary to the headman of the community. In a telephone conversation with nutis.org, he commended the pupil teachers currently at post for doing extremely well but was worried about the lack of trained teachers to get the pioneers ready for the next BECE. He told this blog that the community is in touch with the GES and hopes the community school is assigned some professional teachers ahead of BECE next year.

Delight Akah also tells us the community puts resources together to pay the pupil teachers an amount between 70 and 80 Cedis a month.  He acknowledges it is woefully inadequate but that is their strength. He emphasized, they explain the  spirit and benefits of communality to the young teachers before they take up the job.

He says their biggest challenges are the lack of school building and furniture for pupils and teachers.

The KG and most of the primary school pupils were recently blessed with some writing materials by the Home of Vision Foundation.

 

Mr. Delight Akah is appealing to natives of Bakpa-Dzave who live outside the community, as well as NGO’s to come to their aid so they can put up classroom structures and buy furniture for effective teaching and learning.

 

 

 Bakpa Dzave also lacks potable water. Members buy water from neighboring communities for their daily use. According to Mr. Akah, pipes have been laid over six months ago but they are yet to see the water flow.

 

In order to get water to cook one has to buy a barrel of water at 4 cedis every day. For drinking, they buy sachet water and for washing they fetch water from this contaminated pond.

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UTAG Strike: Gov’t hopeful lectures will resume soon

Nutis.org monitoring citi news today, gathers that the Education Minister Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum is positive about university lecturers returning to the lecture halls soon. He however failed to disclose the decisions taken at  his outfits meeting with Vice Chancellors of public universities.  

 

 

 Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum told citi news “We met with the Vice-Chancellors of the various universities and discussed a number of issues, bordering around how to get our university teachers, without whom schools will not run back to the lecture halls.”

 

 

“Some important decisions were made and I am glad about the outcome. We are going to follow through to ensure that the strike is called off in the coming days.”

 

 

UTAG has since 2012 raised red flags over government’s unwillingness to meeting its needs.

 

In 2012, a lecturer’s basic plus market premium was pegged at $2,084.42. UTAG members basic premiums currently is at $997.84. 

 

Earlier on citi news, the National Secretary of UTAG, Dr. Asare Asante-Annor said “The lawyer made it clear that we signed a couple of MOAs [in the past], but the employer has not shown any good faith anytime the MOAs were signed’’

 

UTAG has been on strike since January 10 to force the government to restore the conditions of service agreed upon in 2012.

Nunya Foundation na Ewegbegbalewo Dzelukope E.P. Basic School

Nunya foundation, habɔbɔ nɔ ɖokuisi aɖe wɔ nunana tɔxe na Dzelukoƒe EP. gɔmedzesuku le Keta nutome. Nunanawo nye Eʋegbegbalẽ vovovo si wo ƒe home ade ₵1,500 kple edzivɔ.
Agbalẽawo ƒe ɖewoe nye Nyaseto 1 & 2, Nunyamɔ 2B, 3B kple 5B, Agbe Nye Nu Si Newɔe, Kesinɔnu Kple Yayra, Nya Zɔzɔ, Tɔkɔ Atɔ̃lia, Do Eʋegbe Mase I kple bubuawo.
Efo Michael Deh amesi wo ga yɔ na be Keta Yevu eye wonye Nunya Foundation hametɔ lae tia suku sia na dɔ sia wɔwɔ.

Aƒetɔ Christian Zogli, si nye habɔbɔ la ƒe zimenɔla la ɖe susu si ta woɖo habɔbɔ la gblɔ na nutis.org be yewo kpɔe be gbe la dodo, eŋɔŋlɔ kple exexlẽ le to yim, eye ne ame aɖe ke meɖe afɔ ɖe eŋu o la gbea aku. Susu sia tae yewo ɖoe le Nunya Foundation be, ele be yiwo agbɔ agbe Eʋegbe la, vevietɔ le sukuviwo dome.
 Chairman Christian Zogli
Habɔbɔ la ƒe afɔ si woɖe la do dzidzɔ na sukuviwo kple nufialawo kpakple wɔna la teƒekpɔlawo katã.
Dzelukoƒe EP Gɔmedzesukutatɔ Aƒetɔ William Dumeda gblɔ le wɔna la teƒe be, taflatse, agbale siwo yewo hĩa na Eʋegbesɔsrɔ̃ la ƒe ɖeke me le yewo si o, eyata afɔɖeɖe sia do dzidzɔ na yewo alegbegbe.

Aƒetɔ William Dumeda – Tatɔ, Dzelukoƒe E.P Gɔmedzesuku
Dumegã ESK Kwau amesi wɔ dɔ kpɔ abe sukutatɔ ene le KETASCO la nɔ wɔna sia teƒe. Efa konyi tso alesi egbeviwo trɔ Eʋegbe la tatu hafi do na zi geɖe la ŋuti vevie. Eƒo abɔta na Nunya Foundation le woƒe agbagba dzedze be yewo agbɔ agbe Eʋegbe la ta eye wodoe ɖe Eʋeviwo katã le aƒe kple gbe sia gbɔ be woado alɔ habɔbɔ la hena dɔ la ƒe takeke.
Nunya Foundation do ŋgɔ wɔ nunana sia ƒomevi na Agotime Akpokɔpe DA Basic School, Agotime – Ziope nutome., Amedzikope RC Basic School, Ketu South nutome, kple Tsavanya DA Basic School, South Tongu nutome.
Nunya Foundation, tɔwo bia be ame sia ame na kpe ɖe yiwo ŋuti hena habɔbɔ la ƒe zɔɖeɖe alebe taɖodzinu si nye be Eʋegbe na nɔ agbe ne megbeviwo la na teŋu ava eme.

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