Parents institute levy to end the use of child labour at school

Buduatta (C/R), Jan. 20, GNA – The Parent-Teacher-Association (PTA) of the Buduatta D/A Primary School in the East Gomoa district are contributing 5,000 cedis per pupil to raise funds to pay two pupil teachers, who have volunteered to teach at the school.
Announcing this at a general meeting of the PTA at Buduatta, the chairman of the School Management Committee, Mr Samuel Okwam, said two female teachers had been teaching in the school since the beginning of the academic year in September 2003 without pay.
Earlier, the headmaster of the school, Mr Samuel Aggrey, had told the meeting that the school’s only means of mobilising funds was from the labour of the children in pepper cultivation and the carrying of stones and sand.
The parent objected to the system of using the children’s labour and warned the staff to desist from such practice. The headmaster appealed to the PTA to rehabilitate the dilapidated school building and to provide toilet facilities and furniture for the office.

Source: GhanaWeb

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