Koduakrom Primary, Our Third and Final Remote School

Wednesday, July 29th. (continued)

Then it was time for our last visit to a remote school. We drove about a half hour down a dirt road to Koduakrom Primary School in the Brong Afho Region. The community is a rural farming one that grows cassava, mangoes, maize and cocoa. The whole community was there to meet us as were the students who had been sent home on holiday a week early because their teachers and headmaster were at our workshops. The school had a very different feel. We could see immediately that they had a new structure built in a u- shape with a concrete centre courtyard. The windows were boarded up, but that was because it was closed for the summer. The children and parents all carried chairs to the courtyard to set up an area for a meeting. I went into the new school and discovered that although the building was new the furniture was old and basic and there were no resources anywhere to be seen. Looking out the back window I could see the remains of the old school, just mud walls and a sheet metal roof, where the headmaster, Francis, had apparently been bitten by a cobra a couple of years ago. He survived but it drew attention to the needs of the school and the community and GNAT in partnership with CTF and the Nkabom program helped get them a new school. This story made me feel better about the whole providing supplies to needy schools. I think and hope that our efforts will draw attention to the needs of the schools we visited since the media and elected officials were invited by GNAT to all our presentations. We listened to a number of speeches again and presented our supplies to GNAT, the headmaster and the parent council. As always the community was very appreciative and we had a good visit interacting with them.