About 15 per cent of learners in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region walk long distances from their communities in the hinterlands to school.
Some of them walk not less than an hour to school, hereby suffering fatigue in the classroom, leading to sleeping and non-concentration.
This has been identified as a factor affecting access to education, academic performance and contributing to school dropout.
JoyNews' Fred Quame Asare has more in the following report.
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