Eighteen year old Mawuenya Kpodo has a dream of joining Ghana’s military in the future and that dream starts in Agorde.
Kpodo and his siblings, like many other children in the town, have to swim their way through two rivers in a quest to gain access to education at Tsavanya, the nearest community with classroom facilities.
They put their uniforms and books in basins they hold carefully as they swim across the river.
Speaking to GHOne News, Kpodo said although it is more dangerous especially during rainy seasons; they have no choice but to bravely navigate the waters to school.
Under the circumstances, those that are lucky enough to meet a canoe provided by the district assembly some years ago, cross the river using the canoe.
The canoe is sometimes taken away by some fisher folks in the town, forcing children that cannot swim to use another deadly means of getting to the other side of the river.
They hop and walk on the logs and big branches of trees along the banks to cross to the other side and this requires a lot of experience.
That however is one hurdle.
Another barrier is walking for more than seven kilometers to get to their school.
The other nearest town to Agorde is Torve, where some other pupils also attend school.
The situation does not get any better for those who attend the Torve Basic School.
They have to walk for about one hour thirty minutes as well as cross two different rivers before getting to school.
The time these pupils have to spend each morning travelling to school, consumes much of the time they need to be in the classroom.
They therefore end up studying for just a few hours.
The pupils we met on our way narrated their ordeals to the news team, saying that they get stressed out before getting to school and that negatively impacts their academic performance.
Some of the pupils find it difficult to express themselves in English.
A child in Agorde needs to be ten years or more before starting school in the closest communities.
This report by GHOne News’ Alice Aryeetey examines the state of education in these parts and what authorities are doing about it.
Source: ghonetv.com
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my people voltarians let vote against the NDC and bring NANA after all PAPA J because of him we are their work bank is not supporting him the different is clear
so sad! Yet they are NDC "darling boys" NDC wi,l always deceive them them it is only them that "have Ewes at heart"! We vote for them and they dont care about us! Couldnt the bribe for Bugri Naabu (Ghc 500,000) build at least a foot bridge over the streams for them to cross to school? Couldn't the GhC 51 million to woyome construct a feeder road t link the village to the nearby town? NDC, you have deceived us enough, we are wiser now! Dont tell me other parties have been in power before...you call us your "world bank" What a Shame!
God come and help Ghana.nationals are been rejected like slaves.Kwami Nkrumah come and see us ghana
waaaaaaa look at this. Mahama is a disgrace to Ghana.
Transforming lives??????. JM is a failure. I know some will disagree with me but he is incompetent and not setting the priorities right. Huge 3 storey SHS building could have provided enough schools in deprived zones.This people are neglected like refugees. Changing lifes be that??? VOTE FOR CHANGE NOW.
GHOne which region and district this community is located? You can't write without giving us the geographical location. Your story is hanging in the air.
hahahah hihihi kwakwa lolol i laugh enter NDC office
This people will still vote for NDC come Dec 7th and still swim to school. oh Ghana my mother land.
yet we re giving iut cars etc to already wealthy ppl. If one built schools n roads and make noise who do u expect to do it?? pupils going through this and someone out that sees nothing wrong with it what a shame. Where was this school during the eradication of schools under duah???lol God wl judge u all
This is my best story for the year so far published by peacefmonline. keep up the good works