Busunu Community to benefit from free community day Senior High School

The Busunu Community in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region has benefited from the President John Mahama free Community Day High School to improve access to quality teaching and learning in the area.

Twenty (20) acres of land has been released by the chiefs and people of the area to the district assembly to build the Community Day Senior High School.

The Busunu community will be part of 200 communities in the country that are benefiting from the 200 community day senior high schools, a manifesto pledge by the ruling NDC party under the Free SHS policy.

Under the Free SHS policy some approved schools fees would be absorbed by the state.

Twenty (20) acres of land has been released by the chiefs and people of the area to the district assembly to build the Community Day Senior High School.

The Busunu community is one the busiest and biggest areas within the West Gonja District.

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The community has no senior high school and pupils who completed junior high schools have to go far away from home, either to Damongo, Bole, Tamale, Kimtapo, Techima or Wa to get senior high schools to attend.

However, the Community Day Senior High School when built will not only help children to stay in the community to further their education but will also save over twenty (20) communities within the area.

At a durbar to announce the good news to the people, the Northern Regional Minister, Hon Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna urged the people in the area to invest in their wards education, saying that, education is the only way to bring equitable development to them.

He said, the free Community Day Senior School forms part of the NDC government to make education free and accessible to the people.

The District Chief Executive of the West Gonja, Hon Kassim Bakari Ali said, a quality education is not just a fundamental human right, but also the best tool to help children build a better future and a chance to break free from the shackle poverty.

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And in this regards, the assembly has prioritized education and has put mechanism in place to ensure that accessibility to quality education still remains the focus of the assembly.

Hon Kassim emphasized that, educational infrastructural development is one of the keys areas that the assembly and its development partners are working on to improve teaching and learning in schools, saying that, educational materials such as books, furniture’s, and others will be provided to schools in abundance to ensure that no child and no school is left behind.

He said, teacher absenteeism and pupil to teacher ratio are been tackle to put more teachers in school, adding that, teachers accommodations are been provided to keep them in the communities.

The Busunuwura on behalf of the people thanked the government for the community Senior High and noted that, their children will now stay in the community to learn in the sight of their parents.

The Busunuwura therefore releases 20 acres of land for the building of the Community Day Senior School project   which is expected to commence this November.

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