Mampong Presec Girls Call For Help Over Strict Covid-19 Rules In The School

Ghana’s school were asked to reopen on 15 June 2020 by the President Nana Addo Dankwa after consultation with the Teacher Union. The president laid down few measures which he believed was supposed to help curb the spread of the Corona Virus.

The leaders of Mampong PRESEC sat down and agreed on measures they believed will fight the spread of Covid-19 in the school after which the Assistant Headmistress of Academics, Madam Stella disclosed it to the students at the school’s assembly hall.

She made it clear that the students do not need any money in the school because government will provide food, morning to evening. I spoke to few students on phone and they disclosed even though the school provides them with three square meal, they need money to do other things to keep them going as ladies. They need pad, soap, deodorant and many other things that will keep them fresh to avoid smelly private parts. The school doesn’t provide those things to them and even if they call their parents for money, the teachers don’t redraw the money for them, now they are going through a lot.

“Government told as to start class at 9:00am and close at 1:00pm. But in our school, form 3 students don’t have free time to rest, we are asked to rise up like 4:30am and be in class before 5:30am. We can stay in class all day, little time to shower. We also go to bed around 9:00pm. At dining, it is six (6) people at a table, so we are never satisfied with the food that they give to us. Even though government asked that no parent should visit their wards until the end of their examination, the school have also implemented no parcel law in the school. We don’t receive anything including money from our parents. But the authorities have provided a fruit shop that students should by from there, eat to boost their immune system, now we have no money to buy the fruit. Every Sunday they come round to collect offering, we are unable to contribute due to lack of funds. Even if our parents send us mobile money, we are unable to redraw the money”. The Girls said.

They also added that, sometime ago a student got sick and her mother sent her medicine, the school sent it back to her parents. And around last two weeks, an organization came to share deodorants and sure to the students, those items were small so it didn’t do anything, they are finished.

The girls are calling government to come to their rescue. They want the school to allow them cash out their money when it is sent to them by their parents so that they can take care of themselves while in school.