The Headmaster of the school, Mr. Michael Kwesi Alayi stated in his address that the school lost some learners who strayed from the school premises into the community and one, unfortunately, drowned in the Volta Lake in Kpando, due to the openness of the school. He also mentioned that the school lacked dormitories for male and female learners, a security system, an administration block, teachers’ bungalows, classrooms, vocational training centers and a kitchen and dining hall.
Mr. Frank Foli, the Chairman of the Frank Foli Educational Support programme appealed to individuals, churches, and other interested persons to give their quota for the various projects mapped out for the school, of which the school fencing was primary. He also appealed to the authorities involved to be concerned for the needs of the school.
The Kpando Municipal Assembly donated thirty (30) bags of cement for the fencing of the wall, and pledged GH¢500.00. The MCE, Hon. Geoffrey Kodzo Badasu promised that the Assembly will monitor the phases of the project to the end. He requested that the Municipal Coordinating Director be on standby at all times to give technical advice on the project.
The Hon. MCE stated that the Assembly had assisted the school with streetlights to brighten the access road and the school compound to make mobility less risky at night. He also hinted that the Assembly had authorized the Department of Highways to grade the access road to the school, which now makes the road motorable. He promised that the Assembly would make more streetlights available to the school to brighten other areas of the school compound that were in darkness. The Hon. MCE also appealed for support for the school.
The Abanu Community Inclusive Special School was established in the early 1990s as a private institution to accommodate and assist learners with intellectual and developmental disabilities, hearing and visual impairment, and other disabilities as well as few without any form of disabilities. The school was later absorbed into the public education system in the early 2000s, and due to agitation from some parents, learners without disabilities were withdrawn and enrolled into regular schools. Currently, the school accommodates only children with disabilities.
The total population of the school includes twenty-three (23) staff (9 teaching and 14 non-teaching staff) and seventy-three (73) learners, of which only an average of forty-five (45) report to school each term. The entire school is housed in a seven (7) Unit Classroom Block of which two (2) rooms are used as classrooms, two (2) rooms are used as dormitories for male and female learners, one (1) for House-Mothers and another room for the Headmaster, Accountant and General Administration office, and the other shared by the storekeeper and kitchen staff.