The Headmaster of the Gbeogo School for the deaf at Tongo in the Talensi�Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, Mr. Felix Neetege Faata has appealed to the government to urgently come to the aid of school as the boys dormitory has become a death trap.
According to the Headmaster of the school, the boys dormitory is now a death trap as one can shake the walls of the building, adding that cracks have also developed on most of the walls.
Mr. Felix Neetege Faata made the appeal when Accra-based UTV, a subsidiary of the Despite Group visited the school to familiarize itself with some of the challenges in the only disability school in the Upper East region.
Some of the problems according to the headmaster includes infrastructure.
The school authorities lamented that Gbeogo School for the deaf has no kitchen and as such the kitchen staff prepare food in the open space at the mercy of the weather.
The Principal Domestic Bursar, Mrs. Matilda Atagabe is calling on government to provide the school with a gas stove to prepare meal for the students, as the kitchen staff has always resorted to firewood.
He stressed that many schools in the region used gas stoves to prepare food for their students unlike Gbeogo School for the Deaf.
The Principal Domestic Bursar added that there is no shed for kitchen staff and as the domestic bursar she also has no office to administer her service effectively.
As of 1996, all the other nine Regions of Ghana had school for the deaf except the Upper East Region.
Deaf pupils from the region were forced to either go to Savelugu School for the Deaf in the Northern Region or Wa School for the Deaf in the Upper West Region.
There was thus the need for a school for the deaf in the Upper East Region to cater for the numerous deaf pupils who could neither make it to Savelugu nor Wa due to financial constraints.
Due to the efforts of the Catholic Church and some concerned educationists in the Region, Gbeogo School for the Deaf was established on 16th April, 1996 in the Talensi-Nabdam District.
The Chief of Gbeogo, Chief Pius Toshyin readily, made a private building available for the school to utilize with its then 10 pupils, 5 girls and 5 boys.
The Gbeogo School for the Deaf with an initial enrollment of 10 students, currently has a student population of 406, comprising 232 boys and 174 girls and operates in a 12-unit classroom block for both the primary and junior high schools, with a staff strength of 25.
The school also enrolls pupils from Burkina Faso and Togo.
Source: Daniel Adu Darko/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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