Wiasekrom pupils endure snake attacks, hunger and 7km walks to learn under fragile huts

Wiasekrom pupils endure snake attacks, hunger and 7km walks to learn under fragile huts

By Daniel Donkor The challenges confronting children in Wiasekrom, a farming community in the Tain District of the Bono Region, are as heartbreaking as they are dangerous. For many pupils, the pursuit of education means walking nearly seven kilometres each day to Nsawkaw, the district capital, simply to escape the collapsing structures of their local school. At Wiasekrom D/A Basic School, classrooms for Primary One to Five are nothing more than …