Over 400 million-cedi youth centre commissioned in Kumasi

Kumasi, Sept. 26, GNA -- A 400 million-cedi Youth Centre constructed for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was on Monday inaugurated in Kumasi.

The centre made up of a hall, a counselling room, a procedure room, a store and two washrooms was financed jointly by the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).

It is to be used in sourcing information on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH).

Professor Kwesi Andam, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the KNUST, who inaugurated the centre, hoped that the centre, the first of its kind at the university, would be patronised by students and the youth in the area to enable them to have information on their SRH to help them to become responsible adults in future.

He commended the PPAG and the UNFPA for funding the project and urged them to provide the necessary opportunities for the youth. Dr (Mrs) Frances Owusu-Daaku, President of the PPAG, said the idea for the project was proposed by the Inspirational Youth Ministry of the KNUST Protestant Chaplaincy in 2000.

She said it was in response to the proposal that the PPAG and the UNFPA decided to embark on the project for students and youth in the area.

Dr Owusu-Daaku announced that the PPAG as part of its youth project is sponsoring the education of Miss Abena Serwaa, 21, a third-year student of the Technology Secondary School at KNUST at the cost of eight million cedis.

Mrs Elsie Ayeh, Middle Belt Zonal Manager of the PPAG, disclosed that the PPAG had so far provided such centres in Accra, Kumasi, Sunyani, Mepe and Sogakope in the Volta region, Yawmatwa in Western region and Jisonayilli in the Northern region.