Ambassador urges Ghana, Italy to enhance lives

Apam (C/R), Feb 25, GNA - Dr Fabrizio de Agostino, Italian Ambassador in Ghana on Saturday lauded the high level of cooperation between Ghana and his country and urged both countries to use it to improve livelihoods in the two countries.

He was speaking at the inauguration of a development assistance initiative under which a group of Ghanaians living in Italy provided infrastructure to the Apam Catholic Hospital. Known as 'Ghanacoop', the initiative has been institutionalised to sustain the support from Ghanaians in Modena, Bologna and Vicenza provinces and other philanthropists abroad.


Apart from Apam Catholic Hospital, Ghanacoop has also


adopted the Mankessim Fistula Hospital. His Eminence Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson, Archbishop of


Cape Coast Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, through whose


efforts the Project was located in Apam and Mankessim,

commended members for contributing to the improvement of


lives in the communities. He appealed to other Ghanaians in Diaspora to emulate


Ghanacoop. Dr Ebenezer Amekah, Acting Medical Superintendent of


Apam Catholic Hospital, commended Ghanacoop for assisting


the Hospital to complete an Accident and Emergency Centre,

started in May 2007. Mr Thomas McCarthy, President of Ghanacoop said his


group also established trade relationship between some farmers


back home and fresh fruit buyers in Italy. Ms Joyce Aidoo, Gomoa District Chief Executive, commended


Ghanacoop for setting up solar panels to bolster the energy


needs of the Gomoa Simbrofo community, near Apam.