Relief has finally come to authorities and pupils of T. I. Ahmadiyya cluster of schools in the Wa municipality as the school received furniture worth ¢40,000.

The furniture, 200 single desks were donated by the Managing Director of a road construction firm, USSUYA Ghana limited, Yussif Yakubu.

Receiving the gift, the school authorities indicated that the kind gesture will increase the quality of teaching and learning at the school and make way for enrollment.

Most basic school pupils in the region sit on broken furniture while others carry stools from their homes as various schools in the Upper West Region are challenged with inadequate furniture.

Those who do not have access to a chair either sit on the bare floor or squat and bend over the books on the dirty-eroded concrete floors to write.

T.I Ahmadiyya cluster of schools is no exception. What greets you is the stream of broken furniture parked at the back corners of the classrooms. The furniture available for use in the classrooms is not even and uniform.

Concerned about the furniture deficit at the school, the old students of the school, a few months ago, also donated tens of dual desks to the school.

The MD of USSUYA Ghana limited, moved by the motivation of the old boys, came to the rescue of not only the foundation T.I. Ahmadiyya primary block A but the other streams as well.

A representative of USSUYA Ghana limited, Sufyan Yakubu, noted that education is the cornerstone to alleviating the poverty quagmire the people are wallowing in, hence the need to focus and support it to remove all impediments on its way.

Representatives of the Basic School’s coordinator of Wa Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mohammed Baba Issa, noted that the gesture is a good omen for the municipality as they are several schools in the municipality that pupils use the bare floor as their furniture which is not the best.

“It will sound surprising if you go round the municipality, you will see pupils lying on the bare floor whilst writing. So, if you have somebody who sees this and wants to do away with it, we should thank him very much.”

A view equally shared by the manager of the Ahmadiyya Education Unit, Mahmud Suleiman.

“The donation will boost the morale of teachers and the pupils and upped the performance to an appreciable level.”

Though the furniture is yet to be utilised by the school, the Headmaster of T.I. Ahmadiyya primary school A, Mohammed Akib is already talking about the benefit the schools will derive from the donation.

He said several parents who hitherto brought their wards to the school have to turn away because of the inadequate furniture.

"Now we have abundance furniture at our disposal, we can now increase the enrolment figures at the school," he added.

Whilst jumping and jubilating over the inadequate furniture challenge been solved; the pupils are not oblivious of other challenges they will also want to be fixed.

They want the dilapidated school structure to renovate to further aid teaching and learning at the school.