DFID assists flood victims with £900,000

Pelungu(UER), July 30, GNA - The management of Department For International Development (DFID) from Britain in conjunction Action Aid Ghana (AAG) on Tuesday presented agriculture inputs worth 900,000 pounds sterling to 1,775 households in three districts in Upper East Region affected by last August floods.

The presentation under the "Food Security and Agriculture

Recovery Management" project would in addition assist beneficiaries

to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in their

areas. The 10-month project which started in June this year is assisting

victims in Talensi-Nabdam, Bongo and Kassena-Nankana Districts. Each household would receive 50 Ghana cedis to purchase farm

inputs including fertilizers, weedicides, insecticides and cutlasses. Nii Narku Mensah, Coordinator of the Project making the

presentation at Pelungu in Talensi-Nabdam District said a livestock

revolving fund would be established to provide each household with

capital to undertake animal husbandry and gardening. He announced that in June this year, Action Aid with funding from

World Food Programme (WFP) distributed seeds and grains for the

victims and each household benefited from quantities of maize,

cowpea, Iodated salt and cooking oil every month. Mr Sulemana Alhassan, Senior Programmes Officer of AAG said

the assistance was to complement government's efforts to relieve the

plight of the victims and urged the beneficiaries to use the items efficiently to improve their

living standards. Mr Anaba Nabila, Talensi-Nabdam District Chief Executive

commended the donors for complementing Government efforts to

assist the flood victims and advised people living in low land areas to move upland to avoid being affected by the spillage from Burkina

Faso in September. He urged people who had not registered to register when the

voters register re-opened on July 31.