A heartbreaking video has been shared on social media showing some students from Avetakpo in the Ho West Constituency an NDC stronghold walking through streams.
According to the reports, the school children always walk through the streams every morning just to get to school.
In the viral video, a voice was heard calling on the children to walk through the streams. The school children were spotted walking gingerly in the stream with their school materials.
In the video shared by CDR Africa was captioned: “A heartbreaking video from Avetakpo in the Ho West Constituency shows students wading through streams every morning just to get to school”.
The MP for the area have been identified as NDC Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, who has represented the area since 2009.
The video has sparked calls for urgent intervention, with successive governments prioritising other projects over the basic needs of Ghanaians.
Some Ghanaians reacting to the heartbreaking video wrote, “Look at my country in 2026. We come online to banter with lies while knowing the situation back home is critical”.
“Sadly, these problems didn’t just start today. They predate the invention of social media & smartphones. Whether we like it or not, this is how many Ghanaian adults today, our parents, our grandparents & our great grandparents went to school.
I hope things can improve one day”, one netizen added.
Another X user added, “Our environment shapes us.
Going through hardship like this, at a young age, gives you no choice but to succeed at all costs. This is where the drive & ambition to become rich is born.
Not sure what’s worse. The 16-year-old pregnant girl walking 20km while in labour or this…”.
One X user added, “I can see future ministers, nurses, lawyers, business tycoons swimming every morning to receive formal education; it’s very sad. MP for the constituency should do sth about this ASAP before something bad happens”.
One more netizen fired shots at the government for allocating $250M on the AI centre, saying, “The only water body “these people’s” children will have to wade in is a swimming pool, yet thousands of children do this every day to access basic education, but yeah, let’s spend $250M on an AI center because the children here can use it.
What a joke!”.
A netizen added, “This is real.
But this might be setting for attention because it looks as if they are not crossing, rather they are using the river throughout.
The conditions for the students might be heartbreaking, but this video looks settings”.
“Yet we have an overseas scholarship institution that uses Ghanaian taxpayers’ money to sponsor some Ghanaian students to study in universities abroad. Making those countries and universities richer. It is not insulting to us”, an X user added.
One more X user added, “I started my academic journey in a small town, so I cannot watch this casually.
Your environment shapes your options long before talent gets a fair chance.
It is painful to think how many bright children will be slowed down, discouraged, or lost entirely because getting an education still means enduring conditions like this”.
“Though there is a problem there, this is probably not how they cross the river to school every day. Which parents in their right senses will ask their wards to go to school in this way? They get to school with their uniforms wet and wear them till it dries. Make it make sense”, an X user added.
Watch the video below:
🇬🇭 A heartbreaking video from Avetakpo in the Ho West Constituency shows students wading through streams every morning just to get to school
— CDR AFRICA (@cdrafrica) April 17, 2026
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