The Headmaster of the Gbeogo School for the Deaf in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, Vitalis Niben-Yel Tuolong has expressed worry over inadequate furniture in the school. He indicated the inadequacies affect activities in the classroom and school dining hall.
Mr. Niben-Yel said some students sit on the floor to learn. According to him, the students in the school are already vulnerable therefore measures should be put in place to make them comfortable in the various classrooms in order to have effective studies. The Headmaster of the school said the school’s problems need to be addressed with the urgency it deserves.
The Headmaster spoke to A1News when Regentropfen Education Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in the region, donated water bottles to the students.
“In our dining hall, there is a serious furniture problem. When you get to the classroom, many of the children are sitting on the floor. These are children are already vulnerable, their learning is always slow so they need to be a bit comfortable in other to learn, but they sit on the floor. If you go around the classrooms you will see. So furniture for the dining hall and the classrooms is a serious challenge to us,” he explained.
The Headmaster also called for support in order to renovate the old dormitory block in the school. He said the female students are overcrowded in their dormitory.
“The girls are congested in their dormitory. We have a dormitory that, the Boys were using which was having some renovation problems, but fortunately, they built a new dormitory for them to move there. Now, the other block is standing there so if it is renovated it will ease the congestion problem in the girls dormitory.
That particular block just needs some renovations so that some of the girls can move there. If the foundation or another organization or individual can help us in any of our challenges, we will be grateful,” the Headmaster said.
Mr. Vitalis Niben-Yel Tuolong also called on government to help the school with more teaching and non-teaching staff because as a special school, the inadequate staff is making it difficulty for them to manage the students well.
Source:A1Radioonline.Com|101.1MHZ|David Azure| Ghana|
