The Headmistress of Mmofraturo Junior High School, a famous girls school in the Kumasi Metropolis, Madam 
Agnes E. Baidoo has appealed to the public and philanthropists to help stock the school’s science laboratory with computers.
According to her, the JHS pupils for the past four years have had to rely on the Basic School which is situated close by to access computers during Information, Communication Technology (ICT) lessons.
Addressing chiefs as well as parents and members of the public at the 16th graduation ceremony of the School on the theme ‘the Girl Child in Science and Technology-Discipline the Key Factor’, Madam Baidoo stressed the urgent need of computers at the JHS level if the school is to excel in the subject.
With each of the JHS classes consisting of 60 students, the headmistress disclosed the pupils have had to sit in pairs at the Basic School’s science lab which has 20 computers to learn.
This, she grudgingly stressed brings a lot of discomfort to both the pupils and the teachers of the ICT subject.
OTHER CHALLENGES:
The Mmofraturo school, the headmistress disclosed are facing a myriad of challenges with the pressing ones being the lack of computers as well as the unavailability of proper washrooms for its boarding pupils.
With the breaking down of the modern toilet facility at the school, Madam Baidoo noted both the boarding and day students have had to patronize the old and stinking local facility in the school.
As a girls school, the headmistress expressed worry about the danger in the pupils using this form of facility, noting that the outbreak of syphilis cannot be ruled out if the situation is not checked on time.
Another challenge the headmistress complained about was the unavailability of potable water in the school, adding this makes life in the boarding house unbearable since pupils have had to rely on a borehole facility in the school to enable them wash their clothes and also keep clean.
MP:
Addressing the gathering as well as the graduating class, Hon Collins Owusu Amankwah, Member of Parliament for the Manhyi- North Constituency stressed the important role science and technology plays in the affairs every serious Nation.
According to him, science and technology holds the potential to the rapid development of Ghana and the rest of Africa.
He, therefore mentioned the commitment of government to resource schools offering ICT as a subject or course.
As a show of support to the school, the MP presented an amount of 300 dollars in support of the ongoing projects at the school and promised to stock the science lab with five brand new computers by the end of the year.
