CHASS Chairman: Rice Is The Only Food Available To Feed Greater Accra SHS Students
Concern over the lack of food supplies to feed pupils in Accra’s Senior High Schools (SHS) has been voiced by Paul Amoasi Baidoo, Chairman of the Greater Accra Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS).
The students in Greater Accra can only be fed rice, which won’t be enough in the near future. He bemoaned, “We don’t have maize, beans, or other ingredients for the schools in the area.”
Mr. Amoasi told the Ghana News Agency that he had forwarded the schools’ needs and unpaid bursaries to the CHASS regional director for expeditious action.
He added that these challenges prompted the national leadership of CHASS to appeal to the government to postpone the reopening of schools to January 3, 2025, but their request was denied.
Mr. Amoasi, also the Headmaster of St. Thomas Aquinas SHS, explained, “My school, which is a day school, only serves hot meals for the students.”
He noted that other boarding schools, such as Labone SHS, Accra Girls SHS, and others, provide only rice for breakfast, lunch, and supper.
Also he underlined how bad the situation was and warned that there would be no food to feed the students by Monday, January 13, 2025, if nothing was done to remedy the rice crisis.
He backed the CHASS National Leadership’s call for parents to help feed their kids while they are in school.
The CHASS National Secretary, Mr. Primus Baro, signed a statement on December 18, 2024, highlighting the ongoing financial difficulties that schools confront in spite of prior correspondence and verbal guarantees from the government.
