NKOSEC needs financial assistance

EDUCATION in our rural areas has witnessed challenges that have often been overlooked by government and the major stakeholders of the sector.
OVER the past years, national service personnel, graduate teachers and other groups of people have refused to be posted to the rural areas to teach due to the poor nature of infrastructural development in these areas.
THESE issues which are usually discussed in the media year after year have been left unattended to and we continue to pay the price for it.
ON the front-page of today’s edition of Ghana’s most sensational newspaper Today, our Brong Ahafo Regional Correspondent, Michael Sarpong Mfum, reports that the lives of students in Nkoraman Senior High School (NKOSEC) at Seikwa in the Tain District of the Brong Ahafo Region, are in grave danger due to the unhygienic manner in which the food they eat on campus is prepared.
THIS, according to the report, may lead to serious health implications since the students are still eating this kind of food in the school.
IT is against this background that we at Today call on the government, the ministry of education, the Ghana education service to, as a matter of urgency, go to the rescue of the school to enable it construct an ultra modern kitchen that meets hygienic standards.
THE story further tells us that since there is no dining hall in the school and pantry bowls are served on dusty grounds.
IN a typical African society like ours where we always sit for disasters to strike before we find solutions, this problem has to be rectified as soon as possible so that we can prevent any looming health implications in the pipeline.
WE at Today think that it is prudent to apply the ‘Prevention is better than Cure’ adage in this instance, since it is better to spend little amount of money to prevent than to wait for disaster to strike and spend so much money to curtail it.
FOR us at Today, we can only bring some of these critical issues to the fore but we can do little to prevent the disasters from striking.
THE onus therefore lies on our policy makers to ensure that things are done in the right manner to help us save lives.
IT is in this vein that we call on all people concerned about developing rural education and education at large to rise up and join this crusade to save the precious lives of our future leaders.