Rainstorm destroys Islamic Girls' SHS

A rainstorm  last month destroyed a number of classrooms at the Islamic Girls’ Senior High School at Suhum  leaving  students and teachers stranded without classrooms.

Twelve out of the 16 classrooms were destroyed and a portion of the girls’ dormitory also developed severe cracks  after the storm.

The  affected classrooms  had their roofs ripped off while  portions of the concrete pillars supporting the building also collapsed.

The storm swept through the school on December 13 last year when the Form Three students were writing  their elective Mathematics terminal  paper. Fortunately, however, the only student who sustained minor injuries has recovered.

When a team from the Junior Graphic visited the school, workers were seen  parking the roofing sheets which were blown  into nearby bushes during  the storm  while some of the  students who had reported for school were seen sitting under trees.

According to the Assistant Headmaster of the school, Mr Ebenezer Tawiah, the school would  be using the dining hall (under construction) as classrooms for the students in the interim and “some of them too will have their lessons under the trees in the school.

Mr Tawiah said  some food items like gari, rice, sugar, etc. in the storeroom   got soaked and had to be thrown away.

“So far, the only company which has come to the aid of the school is the Chocho Industries. The Chief Executive Officer of the company presented the school with GH¢1,500 and promised to give us more items,” Mr Tawiah said.

Mr Tawiah appealed to the general public to come to the aid of the school.