Nyankpala (N/R), April 17, GNA - Alhaji Wahab Suhuyini Wumbei, the Tolon/Kumbungu District Chief Executive on Wednesday cut the sod for the construction of a module school complex for the Nyankpala community to improve education in the area. The World Vision-Ghana is providing 60 per cent of the total cost of the project estimated at GH¢796,926.87 while the District Assembly takes up the remaining 40 per cent of the cost.

Ms. Faustina Melody Tietah, the Acting District Development Programmes Manager who jointly cut the sod with the DCE, said the Nyankpala community was chosen due to the declining trend of education in the area. She said the three-phase project comprised the construction of a three-classroom nursery block with kitchen and storeroom and a recreational centre with playing equipment, as well as a seven-classroom primary block with an office.

The phase two of the project, she said, would comprise a four-classroom Junior High School block with a Headmaster's office and a staff common room while a school library and an Information Technology Resource Training Centre would also be constructed. Ms. Tietah said the phase three would be the construction of a KVIP and a borehole in addition to the purchase of a school bus.

Ms. Tietah said World Vision-Ghana was living up to its objectives of helping the vulnerable in society and helping to improve education and expressed the hope that the phase one of the project would be completed within six months.

She appealed to parents to take advantage of the project and enrol their children particularly, the girl-child, in the school when completed to promote education in the district. She commended the chief and people of Nyankpala for releasing a 15-acre land for the project and appealed to them to regard the facility as their own and help to ensure its completion on schedule. Alhaji Wumbei said the District Assembly was doing all that it could to address the problem of high illiteracy in the district to enhance development and prosperity in the area.

He expressed appreciation to World Vision-Ghana for the initiative and gave the assurance that the Assembly would monitor the project to ensure that it was completed without any hindrance.

The DCE said the government was in the process of transforming the educational sector with the provision of teachers' accommodation and other infrastructure and advised the community leaders to help protect the project when completed.