Junior High School students in some
parts of Ghana are yet to see and touch a computer, despite having to write
Information and Communications Technology examination, with their peers
elsewhere.
Teachers reveal many students
confuse the mouse of the modern communication device with the rodent pest they
see around.
Ghana Education Service officials’
lack of computers for the schools makes a mockery of teaching and learning of
ICT.
The Chiefs and people of Nsuta in
the Asiwa District of the Ashanti Region invited Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor
to draw attention to a similar plight and other challenges plaguing their
community.
Nsuta is the nerve center for about
14 cocoa- growing communities in the Bosome- Freho Constituency.
The people, mostly farmers, are
saddled with many challenges, among others, in education, healthcare and
transportation.
The town, surrounded by about 21
smaller communities, has only one Junior High School, housed in an old
structure.
The building has three windowless
small, below-standard classrooms, each accommodating about 80 students, crammed
in them during school hours.
Schools in other parts of the district
have weaker structures, according to official information.
Perhaps, more worrying is the fact
that these students who write ICT examination with the rest of Ghana have never
seen a computer before.
Christopher Damptey Mensah, GES
Circuit Supervisor for the area, told a durbar of chiefs and people that in
some communities’ students still confuse a computer mouse with a real mouse.
“If you talk of mouse, those who can
use the computer know what is mouse but others will think it is the mouse in
the house which the cat runs after. At Anomoobi they had no computer at all.
These schools learn about the computer on the blackboard,” he said.
All health emergencies and general
ailments from the about 21 farming communities end up at this CHPS-COMPOUND
manned by about five enrolled and community health nurses.
It has room to keep patients for
only 24 hours.
“We have made arrangements with some
drivers, so when theres an emergency, they take patients to New Edubiase.
Sometimes they have to be transported on motorbikes,” the nurses said.
The entire population of the town,
including the chief, Nana Kofi Kumi II, converge around this small hill, near
the school to make and receive telephone calls because it is the only spot for
mobile phone reception.
“There’s nothing like a private
conversation in this town,” some worried indigenes told Luv News.
Construction of the road from New
Edubiase to adjoining towns has commenced under the cocoa roads project but the
Chiefs and people of Nsuta are worried work will not reach the town which is
the nerve centre of cocoa farming in the area.
The simple message to government and
Ghanaians for which the people of Nsuta invited Erastus is: “come to our aid”.
Source: Myjoyonline
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