A School for Oduman

Tuesday Novmeber 25, 2009

The Oduman Case has been pending here in the Human Rights Office since June 2009, but due to several road blocks there has been no work on the case since September 2009. To sum it up, Oduman is a village here in Ghana that has no school. Early in the case the government was pressured to give funding to this village to build a school and maintain it - but so such luck. The request was simply dismissed, as the government responded saying there is no funding for a school in Oduman. People who were working on this case during the summer months, approached several NGOs asking them for funding to build a school - once again no such luck. After several mounths, these efforts came to a hault. So it's been about 2 months since anyone has looked at this case. Being interested in education rights and education here in Ghana, the case of Oduman is of great interest to me. After reviewing the case file and discussing the case with my supervisor and others here in the Human Rights office the Oduman Case is still pending but a plan is in place. Projects Abroad will build Oduman a school in Summer 2010. Now, there is no guarentee that the government will fund the school once it is built, but it is a chance that must be taken if the children of Oduman want to attend school. The hope is that once the school is built (with no cost to the government) then funding and sustaining the school will be more favorable. I would like to assist in these efforts by supplying the school with books to make a fully stocked library for the school. So I hope this school will indeed be build in the summer 2010.