The people of Dawa in the Suhum Municipality have appealed to the government to build a school for them.

Speaking to the GNA Mr Abraham Terkper, the assemblyman for the community, said Dawa was a farming community of more than 800 people but had no school.

He said this had been one of the major challenges facing the community and they had done everything they could to get a public school in the area over the years but without success.

Mr Terkper said children in the community walked for over two kilometers to Abisim to go to school and rich parents sent their children to private schools in Nankese.

Mr Wakilu Baba, a community member whose children attend a private school at Nankese, said sending their children to Nankese was costly because they had to pay for transportation in addition to other fees.

He said there are three private schools in Nankese whose buses pick their children at Dawa twice every morning and afternoon because of the large number of children of school going age in the community.

Mr Baba said children whose parents cannot afford the private school in Nankese had to walk two kilometers to Abisim and appealed to the government to build a school for the community.