MORE PROJECTS FOR HALF ASSINI SHS

Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Half Assini

The Parent-Teacher Association of the Half Assini Senior High School in the Jomoro District of the Western Region has completed a number of projects for the school.
This is aimed at ensuring improvement in teaching and learning and academic performance in the school.
The projects, which were handed over to the school at a ceremony at Half Assini, include 250 desks; 100 benches for the school’s assembly hall; 60 tables for the dining hall; 45 tables and 140 stools for the Visual Arts and Home Economics Departments.
Others were 50 beds for both the boys’ and girls’ dormitories, four sets of sitting room furniture for the headmaster’s office, the masters common hall and the assistant headmaster’s bungalow, and 40 arm chairs.
The PTA has also established a computer centre at a cost of GH ¢2,662 for the school.
The Chairman of the PTA, Mr Joseph M. Whajah, said at the hand-over ceremony that since the executive of the association came into office about five years ago, there had been improvement in the infrastructure in the school.
He urged stakeholders of the school to look deep into the future and see the school as the proud home of brilliant students who could add value to the efforts of their tutors to raise the image of the school once more.
“Our destiny lies in our own hands and we have the capacity to change for the better if we show goodwill towards ourselves and let the greater interest of our school guide us in the education of our wards,” he noted.
Mr Whajah stressed the need to prioritise the school’s resources, create the right institutional structures and formulate suitable programmes and activities which would be beneficial to the students, stressing, “The PTA is doing its part and is ever prepared to do more.”
The District Chief Executive for Jomoro, Mr Martin Yamekeh Ackah, commended the good work of the PTA and said the kind gesture by the PTA placed enormous responsibilities on the shoulders of the headmaster, the staff and the entire student body to deliver to expectation.
He said the immense contributions being made towards the school should be indicative of the school’s performance in the coming years and added that some PTAs had been used as an instrument by a few self-imposing persons to milk unsuspecting parents. “Parents are already over-burdened with a host of financial responsibilities and to burden them further will be counter-productive,’’ he said.
Touching on the culture of maintenance, he said there were instances when huge sums of money sunk into projects were allowed to go waste because of lack of maintenance. “We all owe it an ethical and statutory responsibility to maintain these projects else posterity will not forgive us”, he stressed.