THE Abubruwa Junior High School (JHS) in the Nkwanta District in the Volta Region is the recipient of this year’s Clean School award in the region.
The contest aimed at promoting sanitation and hygiene in the schools.
This is in line with the concern of the Ghana Education Service (GES) about the health care of pupils, hence the incorporation of sanitation and hygiene in the curriculum of schools.
It was organised by the Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council and the Regional Environmental Health Directorate.
The school was given three wheelbarrows, four shovels, four rakes and four machetes, among other items.
Presenting the items, the Nkwanta District Director of Education, Rev Ernest Gaewu, said on his visit to the school in 2006, he was held spellbound by the cleanliness of the campus.
From what he saw and heard that the school had won a district award, he said he was only waiting for an opportunity to push the school to win a higher award and added, “Thank God it is with us today.”
Rev Gaewu deplored the problem of poor sanitation in the country where the absence of toilets, shortage of clean and safe water and poor hygiene had led to the death of thousands of children.
He was grateful to the World Vision International (WVI) and the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) for providing the schools with latrines and boreholes.
He congratulated the teachers and pupils of the school with the hope that they would keep the torch burning.
The chiefs congratulated Mr Loveson Adjei who took over as head teacher in 1998, on having the foresight to plan the school. “With the help of his able teachers and pupils, oil palm, teak trees and green grass and other ornamental plants adorn the school compound,” they said.
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