Private School teachers plead to Government for at least 500ghc monthly stipend

The teachers, particularly, those in the private schools, bemoaned their inability to feed themselves and relatives and pleaded with the government to provide them with some form of stipends to survive.

“It has not been easy since schools were closed, I for one find it very difficult to feed my self and provide for my younger brother,” said Evans Boye, a private school teacher at Teshie on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem on Tuesday.

“Government should offer us (teachers) a helping hand and at least give us something so we can cope. Even if it is as little as Ghs 500, we will be happy,” he said sorrowfully.

Also speaking on the same show, Bernice Kpoblo, a private school teacher and a single mother of two, also noted that life had become unbearable for her and her children.

She asserted that, she and her two children on multiple occasions have gone to bed hungry.

Speaking further, she intimated that the new directive should be reviewed.

President Nana Akufo-Addo in his 16th televised address to the nation on measures taken to combat the Covid-19, said he consulted extensively with the Ghana Education Service and other stakeholders in the educational field to arrive at the decision to reopen schools.