The Old Students Association of Kwahu Ridge Secondary Technical High School at Obo has rehabilitated a mechanized borehole for the school at the cost of GH¢3,700.
The rehabilitation of the borehole would solve the perennial water shortage facing the students which affect their studies with some of the students taking advantage of the situation to go to town to indulge in immoral activities.
Inaugurating the project on Monday the Coordinator of the Association, Mr Kwabena Osei-Kwakye, said the old students of the school faced water problems when they were students of the school over 20 years ago.
They therefore decided to solve the water problem by rehabilitating the borehole and also construct an additional mechanized borehole at the cost of GH¢85,000 for the school.
He commended the Golden Tulip, a hospitality industry, for donating GH¢2,450 towards the construction of the new borehole and urged all old
students, citizens of Obo and other Kwahu citizens to contribute towards the construction of an additional borehole.
The Kwahu South District Director of Education who is also the Acting Headmaster of the school, Mr Abraham Adjetey-Sowah, said the rehabilitation of the borehole would ensure discipline in the school since the students
could no longer leave for town in search of water.
He said the school was renovating an old block to be used as boys' dormitory while the girls were being accommodated in an old Home Science Block as the government constructs a six-unit-classroom block for the school.
The Chairperson of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Mrs Barbara Shadow, said the PTA was also constructing a two-unit bedroom bungalow which would accommodate four teachers.