Heads of public senior high schools in the Upper West Region have resolved that if nothing is done to address food shortages in the schools by Friday, July 15, 2022, they “will be compelled to tell parents and guardians to either feed their wards or come for them since it will be impossible to continue feeding them with nothing”.
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), the association of public secondary schools in the region, said they arrived at this resolution after a meeting that “thoroughly” discussed “the food and money situation in the schools”.
They have also asked that extra-curricular activities such as sports and cultural festivities should be suspended because of the lack of funding.
These and other concerns raised by the Upper West CHASS are contained in a letter to the regional director of the Ghana Education Service (GES).
According to the heads, the schools would continue to improvise with whatever was available until the July 15 deadline.
“All schools will feed students with only what is available in the school food stores and students will be asked to bring their own sugar and other items to the dining hall.”
