The Upper East Region has taken delivery of 18,000 pre-cut school uniforms from government. The pre-cut uniforms are to be shared equally among the nine districts in the Region with each receiving 2,000. They have been cut out for each child and are to be sewn at the district level. The Region had already received 11,799 sewn school uniforms that were distributed to needy schools. In addition, the Region took delivery of two million exercise books to be distributed to schools. Presenting the uniforms to the Regional Director of Education at Bolgatanga last Friday, the Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo, explained that it was in fulfillment of government's pledge to support deprived schools. He entreated the District Directors of Education and the District Chief Executives to team up and distribute the uniforms to needy schools in their localities. Mr Woyongo asked them to get competent dressmakers in their districts to sew the school uniforms. This according to him was an avenue for job creation. He said government would also provide classrooms to 4,000 schools presently under trees nationwide, adding that 31 under trees schools in the Upper East Region had already been earmarked for construction and the contract would be awarded by the close of May. The Regional Minister said to rectify accommodation problems that students of the Senior High Schools would encounter due to increase of the duration of years, the government had directed that additional class rooms be provided to accommodate the students during this academic year. For the start, 14 schools in the Region would be benefiting. The Minister, who was unhappy about the poor educational standards in the Region, urged the Regional Director of Education and District Directors of Education to come out with a strategy to address the problem. The Acting Regional Director of Education, Mrs Agnes Atagabe, who received the school uniforms, thanked government for the items, saying it would relieve parents of their burdens and improve educational standards. She assured the Regional Minister that the Regional and District Directorates would work hard to address the poor standards of education in the Region. Source: GNA