Fifteen kindergarten pupils of the New Life Baptist Academy at Gbagbavuinu, a community near Battor in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, are said to have sustained various degrees of injuries after their classroom collapsed on them.
Torrential winds hit the school in the afternoon last week which led to the unfortunate incident.
In all about 35 kindergarten kids- 17 boys and 18 girls-were said to be in the clay structure at the time of the disaster.
The collapsed mud structure, which serves almost 40 kindergarten pupils, was put up in 2014 by the Baptist Church to educate the children at Gbagbavuinu.
Founder of the school, Pastor Elias Mighty Ahumbley, explained that the church established the school in the community to promote education, adding that hitherto children had to walk one-and-a-half kilometers to a nearby community to attend school.
The pastor expressed gratitude to God that the devastating wind which school about 1pm was not accompanied by torrential rains.
He also thanked teachers and some community members who swiftly transported the 15 injured children across the river to the Catholic Hospital at Battor where they received medical attention and treatment.
When DAILY GUIDE visited the community, some pupils, teachers, parents and other members of the community were helping to clear the school to make way for studies.
Ten of the children have so far been discharged with the remaining responding very well to treatment. Two are expected to return to the hospital for a review.
The remaining children took part in a prayer session and offered prayers for their injured school and classmates.
One of the teachers at the school, Ernestina Xedzro appealed to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and other NGOs to come to the aid of the school.
The North Tongu District NADMO Co-ordinator, Moses Agbenudor, who sympathized with victims and their families, described the disaster as the worst in recent years.
Source: Daily Guide
