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Four GETfund sponsored projects in Ketu North District
inaugurated
Tadzewu, Nov. 1, Ghanadot/GNA
- Four Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) sponsored
projects estimated at about GH¢ 970,300 were inaugurated in
separate beneficiary communities in the Ketu-North District
on Friday.
They are a GH¢ 380,000 single-story 12-unit classroom block
for the Wovenu Senior High School at Tadzewu, GH¢ 430,000,
1,200-capacity modern dinning and assembly hall complex for
the Dzodze-Penyi Senior High School at Dzodze and a six-unit
classroom block, office and store valued at GH¢ 77,000 for
the Junior High School at Kave near Dzodze.
Others are a six-unit school block, staff room, a store,
library and toilet valued at GH¢ 83,200 for the Junior High
School at Heheme near Tadzewu, while inauguration of a fifth
project, the GH¢ 69,000 six-unit school block with store and
office for the Junior High School at Dzodze-Fiagbedu was
rained-off.
Mr Kofi Dzamesi, Volta Regional Minister who inaugurated the
projects also inspected work on some three on-going projects
in the District.
These were, a single story 12-unit school block for the
Wovenu Local Authority Junior High School at Tadzewu, a
single story 12-unit classroom block for Wheta Secondary
Technical School at Wheta and a two-story girls dormitory
block for Dzodze-Penyi Senior High School, all estimated at
about GH¢1,490,000.
Mr Dzamesi said Government was committed to expand
educational facilities nation-wide to accommodate increase
in the in-take and ensure quality students and improve on
the level of literacy in the country.
He urged parents to enrol their children in school and
appealed to school authorities and the citizenry to provide
adequate protection and maintenance for the facilities to
encourage government and other stakeholders to provide more
infrastructure for education.
Mr Dzamesi promised that more classrooms, dinning hall and
dormitory blocks, furniture, buses, teachers’ bungalows and
administration blocks would be provided to Wovenu and
Dzodze-Penyi Senior High Schools.
He appealed to contractors in the country to emulate the
duty consciousness of contractors working on GETfund
projects in Ketu-North District to complete project on time
and use durable materials in their work.
Mr Francis Kpodo Headmaster of Wovenu Senior High School and
Mr Samuel Senaye, Headmaster of Dzodze-Penyi Senior High
School as well as community leaders, expressed their
gratitude to Government and Volta Regional Co-ordinating
Council for their interest in expanding facilities in the
schools.
Both schools scored 100 per cent in the 2008 West African
Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
GNA
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