The JHS, primary, nursery and kindergarten students and management of the King Solomon International School at Logonkor-Ziope in the Volta Region are calling on the Government and NGOs to come to their aid. This is because their school infrastructure was completely damaged on October 15th last year after a heavy rain storm.
Teaching and learning at the school is now being conducted under make shift sheds which posses even greater threats to the lives of children. Anytime it rains class activities had to be suspended and children sent home for safety purposes.
A visit to the school by this Paper witnessed, the JHS three pupils taken their mock examinations under a semi-roofed shed as their question and answer papers fly away into the sky. These final year pupils are going to write the same BECE as their counterparts in the other well endowed schools.
This paper also saw most children carrying their own kitchen stools and tables they use in school, back home after school had closed.
Meanwhile, investigation revealed that Proprietor of the school Rev. Mawulorm Bebli, had reported the disaster to the Adaklu-Anyibge District NADMO office for help and has since not come. He said, the District NADMO office had sent an official letter to the Volta Regional NADMO office and the District Chief Executive of Adaklu-Anyibge Mr. Micheal Komla Adzaho, for immediate and emergency action to be taken. A copy was also sent to the school’s headmaster.
“Nothing has come and we are still waiting for them. I called the DCE and also met him few days after the incident but he didn’t mind me”.
Rev. Bebli, said as a philanthropist, he established the school in 1996. So that children in the area can also access the same type of quality education being offered by private schools in the urban centers to his people at a cheaper cost. But now that idea is under threat because we had lost all our text books, desks, and blackboards.
Rev. Bebli said the idea had indeed proven to the entire Ho municipality and the Adaklu-Anyibge District Assembly that the school was one of the best in the area. The school scored between 98 to 100 percent at BECE. With their excellent performance, the school became the preferred choice of many from other surrounding towns. It has a population of 390.
He said, the original structure of the school was wooden and constructed with other materials from the coconut tree into make shift classroom sheds. The shed was divided into various classes to accommodate children from nursery to JHS three.
Adding that his staffs received between GHc30 and GHc50 as salaries.
The Assistant headmaster of the school Mr. Dzorkpe Sefadzi called on the Government and other NGOs to come to the aid of the school.

King Solomon International School is a private school in Logonkor-Ziope in the Volta Region. The school was the best performing school at BECE before the area was carved from the Ho municipality into the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.
By: Murtala M. Bako
Murtalabako1995@yahoo.com
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