School Building Project in Ahyiaem

    Since I have started to go the rounds Afrasu, I also visited New Wench Local Authority School in Ahyiem regularly because children in Afrasu go there and environmental education in forest fringe community is a part of my activity. Through regular visits to schools in Sunyani District, I found several distinctions among their environments; collapsed school buildings, massive students who don’t have shades of trees in the field, no school feeding program, inability of parents to let their children go to school, disadvantage of the location such that most inhabitants are settlers from the north and indigenous people are minority though the school is named as Local Authority, which is located on the boundary of the Wench District.

School head mistress and teachers were seriously concerning about suffered students and have already contributed to improve the school environment. And assembly man of this area is the one who was former community facilitator in Afrasu in PAFORM project, namely my precursor and he is knowledgeable about community development.

My mentor, Mr.Prince. We held a stakeholder meeting, with the School Management Committee which is organized for development of school environment and management based on community.

I have been consulted by them about school issues since March 2010 and introduced Japan’s Grand Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGHSP scheme). They have organized the stakeholders meetings, which invited influential persons in Ahyiem such as elders, women group, some of chiefs who live in area, the chairman of School Management Committee and Parents and Teachers Association. I also attended as an observer, and witnessed noteworthy outputs. Parents knew the severe environment and reconstruct the collapsed structure the very next day of the meeting. This convinced me that the process of application will definitely improve to their capacity buildings, promote the relationship between teachers and stakeholders who live in community and generate more interest and commitment of parents in community, as well as that they will collaborate toward the school building project though we will have a lot of difficulties.

The next day of the meeting, parents came together and repaired the roof of structure for J.H.S 

   We submitted proposal summary in following purpose, though gradually, our project is in progress.

Objective:

   To offer students proper environment to study and grow up safely, they apply for GGHSP scheme to construct the school buildings of Primary for New Wench Local Authority School in Ahyiem to supplement with Kindergarten and J.H.S. In addition to that, we also consider about furniture, toilet facility, library, and so on.