Mr David Asante, an educationist, has appealed to government to support less endowed private schools to promote teaching and learning especially in the rural communities.
Mr Asante, who is the proprietor of the Sun Rise Preparatory School at Kwahu Adawso in the Eastern Region, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on
Saturday that most private institutions are faced with financial difficulties.
He said government could assist in negotiating soft loans for such schools, grant them support from the Ghana Education Trust Fund, and provide
them with school buses, textbooks and feeding programme.
Mr Asante pointed out that private school operation was not as lucrative as others might think especially at the remote areas since the
poor farmer found it difficult to pay his children's fees.
Mr Asante said he established the Sun Rise Preparatory School at Kwahu Adawso in 1986 to help the small and poor Adawso fishing and farming
community to send their children to school.
He noted that so far the school had trained over 500 children, some of whom are now students at the universities and the teachers and nursing
training colleges.