Parents of students who have gained admission to the Aburi Girls Senior High School have pledged to support the school to tackle the problem of infrastructure facing the school. The move will see the prospective parents supporting the school with various building materials to renovate and convert a disused chapel building into a dormitory to accommodate 200 fresh students. Besides, the parents have also expressed their readiness to assist with the renovation and furnishing of other structures to enhance the capacity of the school to admit more fresh students. The pledge followed a meeting between the school's Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) and about 250 prospective parents whose children have gained admission to the school. The meeting saw the executives of the PTA brainstorming with the 'new' parents to see how best to find a solution to the accommodation problem facing the school. The parents' pledge formed part of their contribution to complementing the government's efforts at providing infrastructure at the school to enhance teaching and learning. The meeting, chaired by the PTA chairman, Professor Enu Kwesi, saw the parents touring the site of the disused chapel, where they saw a few trips of sand, stones, blocks and buckets of paints already dumped there towards the renovation of the building. The Aburi Girls SHS, one of the most sought-after girls' boarding schools in the country, has been allocated a six-unit classroom block but currently the school does not have adequate dormitories and classrooms to accommodate the 432 students placed in the school by the Ghana Education Service (GES). At the meeting, some of the prospective parents noted that the issue of lack of infrastructure to cater for the admission of fresh students must be seen as "a problem which must be given urgent attention not only by the government but also by all concerned parents". Some of the parents, who spoke to the Daily Graphic, said the pledge to support the school with the various building materials formed part of "our widow's mite to support the government in providing infrastructure for the school". "Since it is also the responsibility of parents to ensure that our children benefit from quality education in a serene environment, parents could complement the efforts of the government at providing the required infrastructure to the various Senior High Schools in the country," they stated. The parents commended the PTA executives and management of the school for their hard work, which, they said, had contributed significantly to making Aburi Girls SHS one of the Best Senior High School in the country. Source: Daily Graphic