The Agotime Ziope MP has undertaken an initiative to resolve the challenge of access to education in the hinterland community of Adotakofe.

Charles Agbeve with support from the GETFund, and the MP's Common Fund, is constructing a two-unit classroom block with an office to bring education closer to the children in the deprived community.

Currently, Children born in the community are denied their right to education, during the early stages of their lives.

They must wait until they are about 10 years old to begin going to school because they would have to travel about five kilometres to another community.

According to community folks, the unavailability of a school hinders the physical and human resource development of the community.

“The children are suffering in this community; the school is far, and they have to walk and sometimes get soaked by the rain. Because of this, the community is not seeing any development”, said Ama Dagbe.

“Most of the children have stopped schooling because of the distance. They are here in the community not doing anything”, lamented Grace Dartey.

The community leaders have however identified Mr. Agbeve’s classroom block project as a panacea to the underdeveloped state of the community, and human resource development though it would accommodate pupils at the early stages of education.

Mr. Agbeve shared in the pain of the community which has suffered the lack of education since its inception.

He said he would have undertaken the project earlier but delayed it for over five years, due to the limited resources available to him.

“It's unfortunate we have to wait this long for the children of Adotakofe to have easy access to education, but it is better late than never, at least those who are fortunate now will get it. This academic year we must start this kindergarten”, he stressed.

He underscored the importance of education in shaping communities and appealed to philanthropic organizations and individuals to help him complete the school project.

“This is just a lower primary, we will need to at least build the primary, basic 1 to basic 6, and to do that if I could use five years to start this, if I want to start it [the primary], it will take me another number of years so I welcome any good wishes, company, CSO, NGO or any company that wants to support me with resources to complete it, it will be welcomed”, he said.

The residents hope the classroom block will be completed early for the school to take off in the 2024/25 academic year, in September.