Manso-Bonsaaso (Ash), June 5, GNA - Mr Ben Kwakye Adeefe, District Chief Executive for Amansie West in the Ashanti region, has stated that the assembly was determined to push more resources into the training of more teachers to fill vacant classrooms in the District. He said the severe shortage of teachers in the District was undermining the efforts to provide quality education and improved academic standards in the area. Mr Adeefe was speaking at the handing over ceremony of two school blocks to the Kwankyiabo and Manso-Bonsaaso communities in the District. The school blocks, which were financed by the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa at the cost of GH¢60,000 each, consist of six classrooms, a library, two offices and toilet facilities. Mr Adeefe said the Assembly was investing heavily in educational infrastructure and human resource development adding that, 100 classroom blocks and 27 teachers' accommodation had been built by the Assembly for schools.

He called on all stakeholders in education to contribute their quota in order to achieve the goals of the new educational reforms. Mrs Beatrice Boakye Ansah Prempeh, District Director of Education, said investing in education should be a priority of every nation, adding that, that was why Government and the District assemblies were spending huge sums of money in the sector. She appealed to communities to team up with school management committees and parent teacher association to maintain school infrastructure in their communities. Meanwhile, the Millennium Villages Project at Manso-Bonsaaso has donated 100 dual desks valued at GH¢5,000 to the Bonsaaso School, as part of its contribution to the education in the community.