The Parliamentary Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Amenfi Central Constituency in the Western Region,Hon Joana Gyan Cudjoe has paid four months advance salary to some community teachers in her area.
Her vision for the initiative is to promote teaching and learning in the rural communities where there are shortage of teachers and to release burden of levies from parents in such communities in Amenfi Central constituency.
The NDC as a political party has the welfare of teachers at heart hence His Excellency John Dramani Mahama’s plan to introduce a 20% allowance for teachers and health workers who accept postings to rural areas.
Paying the advance salaries to the teachers in Amenfi Central last Monday,Hon Joana Gyan Cudjoe explained that this incentive aims to encourage more personnel to serve in rural areas, bridging the development gap between rural and urban communities.
She noted that currently, most teachers prefer to work in urban areas, leaving rural areas with limited access to essential services.
To address this, she’s poised to provide allowances to those she has employed their service to rural areas ,motivate them to ensure conducive teaching and learning.
President John Dramani Mahama has however promised to push ahead basic salary for teachers and health workers who accept postings to rural areas. Most of our teachers and health workers don’t want to go to rural areas, everybody wants to serve in the city.”
“So, we are going to map out what we define as our areas, if you accept posting to go there, you’ll get 20% of your basic salary as an incentive, to teach in the rural area.”
This has gingered Hon Joana Gyan Cudjoe to motivate a lot of teachers in her area.
The following schools and Communities benefited from the initiative.
1. Bredi D/A Basic School in the Agona Camp electoral area, cost her 2,700gh a Month for 206 pupils.
2. Dwete D/A Basic school in the sumpre electoral area, cost her 2,400gh a Month for 3community teachers for 146pupils.
3. Anomatewa D/A Primary School in the Kyeikrom electoral area, cost her 2,140gh a Month for 107 pupils.
4. Atonsu Community School in the Manso Amenfi electoral area, cost her 5,000gh a Month for 5community teachers for 157 pupils.
5. House of Joy Preparatory School (Manukrom) in the Kwamang electoral area , cost her 3,000gh a Month for 6 community teachers and 147 students.
In all every Month will cost her 15,240gh.
Four(4) Months Salary advance from October2024 to January 2025 cost her 60,960gh .
She has paid 4months salaries from October 2024 -January 2025 in advance for all the schools and communities above which cost her 69,960gh.
The rest of the salaries will be paid every quarter starting from February 2025 next year.
She has however promised to pay salaries of 20 community teachers for the above schools and communities every year which will cost her GHC182,880
