Background
Yongduuni Primary and Junior High School is situated in Yongdunni, a developing community in the Sagnarigu District in the Northern Region of Ghana. Yongdunni like other under-resourced communities are yearning for better schools, libraries and learning aids that will help them overcome the increasing social challenges they are faced with on daily.
The school was established in the year 1990. For kindergarten, the total number of pupils is 96 which is made up of 41 boys and 55 girls. The current enrolment for boys and girls in the primary section is 148 and 120 respectively making a total of 268 and for the Junior High is 55 and 27 for boys and girls respectively, a total of 82. Therefore, Yongduuni has a total enrolment of 446 students to a 21-current number of teaching staff.
- School Achievements
- In 2017, 22 students out of 27 had placement to Senior High Schools
- Challenges
- Lack of furniture.
- Dilapidated primary block.
- Lack of electricity.
- Non-existing ICT centre and Library
- Lack of books and learning aids for pupils and students.
This project will help decrease the number of children living & hawking on the streets, stop the growing rate of trafficking of young girls from the rural areas to urban cities for prostitution and empower a generation of children through our mutual commitment.
The project to decrease the number of children living & hawking on the streets, stop the growing rate of trafficking of young girls from the rural areas to urban cities for prostitution and empower a generation of children through our mutual commitment.