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By Justice Ahoto
The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of Tema Senior High School has handed over a number of newly completed projects to the school to enhance teaching, learning, sanitation and security.
The projects, include an incinerator, 200 mono desks, a reconstructed boundary wall at the western end of the school, a security post and a new gate.
The handover marked the end of the tenure of the outgoing PTA executive, which assumed office in October 2021.
Handing over the projects last Saturday, the immediate past Chairperson, Kwasi Okine Mensah said the PTA mobilised resources from corporate bodies, including GHACEM, Twellium Industrial Company Limited, Coca-Cola, Kasapreko and Nexans Kabelmetal Ghana Limited, as well as through PTA dues agreed upon at general meetings.
According to Mr. Mensah, , the association provided various forms of support to the school with the funds raised, including infrastructure, furniture, computers, medicines for the school clinic and materials for examinations.
Some of the major projects executed were the provision of 50 bunk beds, 25 dining tables with 50 benches, five slashers and a mower, conversion of the artisans’ shed into apartments for teachers, refurbishment of the seven-unit “Atta Mills” classroom block, and the supply of 260 desks.
In addition, the PTA supplied LPG for the school kitchen, provided medicines for the clinic every semester, repaired roof leakages in classrooms, the dining hall and dormitories, fumigated the dormitories, repaired damaged whiteboards and graph boards, and re-roofed House Two dormitory after it was ripped off during heavy rains in July 2025.
The outgoing PTA, however, expressed concern about the non-payment of dues by some parents, describing it as the major challenge facing the association.
Mr. Mensah expressed worry that some parents had stopped paying dues following directives from the Ghana Education Service (GES) discouraging compulsory PTA levies.
He stressed that government alone could not adequately fund public schools and called for stronger collaboration among PTAs, Old Students Associations and school authorities to ensure the effective running of schools.
The Headmistress, Madam Lucy Naih, acknowledged the PTA’s gesture, stating that such investments were crucial as Tema SHS continued to grow.
Mrs Naih, however, expressed concern of inadequate number of security personnel on campus, with a student population of about 3,800, and called for reinforced security to protect both students and school property.
She recounted how until the construction of the newly security post and gate thieves used to break into students dormitories during school hours and also during vacations due to inadequate security personnels on campus
The newly elected Vice Chair of the PTA, Emmanuel Kwasi Agboson, commended his predecessors and pledged the new executive’s readiness to maintain and build on the high standards set, for the overall well-being of the students.
He said the new executive will be fixing some CCTV cameras in the coming days to brief up security on campus
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