{"id":177260,"date":"2024-07-25T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-babile-d-a-primary-school-cries-for-support-to-prevent-school-collapse\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:46:22","slug":"ghana-babile-d-a-primary-school-cries-for-support-to-prevent-school-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-babile-d-a-primary-school-cries-for-support-to-prevent-school-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Babile D\/A Primary School Cries for Support to Prevent School Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The lack of school furniture at Babile D\/A Primary School in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region has forced the majority of pupils to lie on their stomachs on the bare classroom floor during school hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This situation has caused many children to drop out of school since they could not always lie on the floor in their quest to acquire a formal education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Most parents are compelled to send their children to the farm to assist them instead of allowing them to go to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">When the <em>Ghanaian&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407250170.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of school furniture at Babile D\/A Primary School in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region has forced the majority of pupils to lie on their stomachs on the bare classroom floor during school hours. This situation has caused many children to drop out of school since they could not always lie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,49141,9952,18049,4508,4509,257,9849,7518,4362,254,6096],"class_list":["post-177260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-babile","tag-collapse","tag-cries","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-prevent","tag-primary","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}