Seven communities benefit from Hunger Project

Dome (E/R), Sept. 9, GNA - The Hunger Project, Ghana, is working in partnership with seven communities in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District in the Eastern Region, towards the sustainable end of hunger and poverty.

Nana Appiah Bediako, Mankrado of Dome near Kuano, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dome that the project, a 130,000-Ghana Cedi complex building under construction was meant to facilitate operations that would help eradicate poverty from the society and equip the people with vision and commitment to develop the area. The complex structure contained a clinic, nurses' block, a bank, food warehouse, library and a conference hall. Odikro Baffour Agyeman of Dome said Hunger Project, Ghana had already supplied the communities with 10 bags of maize out of the 30 bags promised them.

He stated that the agreement between the communities and the NGO included the cultivation of community maize farms to generate additional funds for the planned establishment of a rural bank. The beneficiary communities include Achiansa, Abobri, Minimade, Kuano, Osu Wem and Dome.

Nana Appiah, a retired educationist stated that the project, dubbed; "Dome Project" was being financed by the Hunger Project, Ghana an NGO, while the seven communities provided boards, gravels, sand, water and communal labour.

The chief and elders of Dome offered a five-acre land for the project started in June, this year and is expected to be handed over to the beneficiary communities by the end of September. Mr. Stephen Appiah, Trainer of Trainers (TOT) of Hunger Project, said a course was organised for the project committee members who were taken through other interventions and reform projects including adult literacy, crop improvement, HIV/AIDS education, child nutrition, women empowerment and micro credit scheme.