Bolga-Sherigu Senior High School to benefit from 11 GETFund projects after years of neglect
The GETFund-funded projects, including classroom blocks, dormitories, and administrative facilities, are expected to address long-standing infrastructure challenges and improve teaching and learning at the school.
The Bolga-Sherigu Community Day Senior High School in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region is set to benefit from eleven major infrastructure projects, following years of neglect.
Since its absorption by the government in 2015, the school has not seen any significant infrastructure development at its current location.
In July 2025, Mike FM’s Alexander Bombande reported that eleven female students of the school became pregnant, a situation that both school authorities and community leaders attributed to poor infrastructure and inadequate facilities.
The report highlighted several challenges, including deteriorating classroom blocks, lack of a dining hall and kitchen, absence of staff accommodation on campus, poor sanitation facilities, and the lack of an administrative block, library, and science laboratories.
It also revealed that the Sherigu community had generously donated a large tract of land at Basengo for the relocation of the school. However, at the time, only two incomplete three-unit classroom blocks had been constructed at the new site.
Residents of Bolga-Sherigu and stakeholders in the school are now beginning to see a glimmer of hope, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 the Upper East Regional Minister, Akamugre Donatus Atanga, cut the sod for the construction of eleven GETFund projects at the school’s new site.
The projects include a three-storey, 18-unit classroom block; boys’ and girls’ dormitory blocks with courtyards; a two-storey administration and library block; and a 12-seater toilet facility.
Speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony, the Regional Minister urged traditional authorities to ensure proper documentation of school lands to safeguard educational infrastructure and prevent future disputes.
The Municipal Chief Executive for Bolgatanga, Roland Ayoo, noted that the National Democratic Congress, while in opposition, pledged to ensure equitable development for Bolga-Sherigu. He said the commencement of these projects demonstrates the government’s commitment to fulfilling that promise.
The headmistress of the school, Madam Janne Edna Karaah, expressed gratitude to the government for the intervention. She noted that the school has long operated from temporary structures, which has negatively impacted effective teaching and learning.
She also appealed for the completion of a three-unit classroom block that was started by the assembly.
READ the report by Mike FM’s Alexander Bombande titled, Eleven girls pregnant as infrastructure crisis hinder supervision at Bolga-Sherigu SHS here
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