Wa, Oct. 20, GNA - The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), has provided 1,000 bunk beds and 2,000 mattresses to the Wa Senior High School (SHS), to help address the problem of accommodation in the School.

Mr Jonas N. Maari, Headmaster of the school, who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Monday, at Wa, said the support had made it possible for the school to accommodate the Form one students.

He said few students used to occupy a whole room, as they sleep on the floor, emphasizing that, with the supply of the beds and mattresses; they could now accommodate a reasonable number of students in a room. He said the government had awarded the construction of a dormitory block for the school but noted that work was yet to start on the project.

The Headmaster said currently, the school had converted the Assembly hall, the new staff common room, the ICT block and the science laboratory into temporal classrooms for the first year students. He said a six unit classroom block was being constructed for the school but noted that it would not be enough to solve the classroom problem. He expressed the hope that by next term, the two projects would have been completed, to ease the congestion and to avoid the easy spread of communicable diseases during the warm season. At the Wa Senior High Technical School, work on a twelve unit class room block was still at the foundation level. Madam Leocadia Zakpala, the Headmistress of the school, bemoaned the situation and said the school was putting up two pavilions out of its own coffers to serve as temporal classrooms for the first year students.

She however said the second pavilion was at the roofing level, before the school run out of funds and had to beg a contractor to complete the roofing for them. Madam Zakpala said the two pavilions would only cater for two classes, adding that, the remaining one class would be made to sit under a tree if no help came their way. The Headmistress said some of the students were using the classrooms as dormitories, explaining that in the night they had to park the tables and chairs outside before they could sleep inside. She therefore appealed for support to enable them to manage the situation, to prevent further suffering of the students.