TWENTY-TWO basic schools in rural communities in the Kwahu North (Afram Plains) and the Fanteakwa districts in the Eastern Region are to benefit from the construction of 22 classroom blocks and residential apartments for teachers.
The multi-million projects, aimed at improving educational facilities in the beneficiary communities, will comprise offices, libraries and computer laboratories, while the teachers’ quarters are expected to accommodate about 132 teachers.
Besides, furniture and various educational materials will be provided for the beneficiary schools to improve teaching and learning in the two districts.
The projects are being funded by the Korean government, under the Integrated Quality Education Project that is being implemented by the Korean International Co-operation Agency (KOICA), in partnership with World Vision International.
Inaugurating one of the completed projects — a three-unit classroom block and two teachers’ bungalows — at Nkankama in the Fanteakwa District, the Korean Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Hak Sang Lee, said since education was vital to developing the country’s human resource base, the Korean government was ever committed to making educational infrastructure and materials more accessible to some selected rural communities in the two districts.
“Since Ghana can achieve its development aspirations with a well-educated population, the Korean government is committed to helping it to harness its human resource base,” he stated.
The outgoing Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, commended the Korean government for its commitment to various educational projects in rural communities aimed at improving the standard of education in the beneficiary areas.
He appealed to the chiefs and people of the beneficiary communities to take good care of the projects so that they would serve the purposes for which they were constructed.
The Chief of Begoro, Daasebre Awuah Kotoko, expressed the gratitude of the people to the Korean government and World Vision International for their support towards raising the standard of education in the district.
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