Tamale To Benefit From World Bank Grant

The Tamale metropolis is to benefit from a World Bank grant of $25,000 to embark on development projects in the area.

The grant is part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) projects that is aimed at reducing poverty in developing countries.

The grant was made possible through the Sister Cities of Tamale and Louisville in the USA and its parent body, Sister Cities International.

Ms Alysan Schwaber of the Sister Cities International disclosed this at a consultative meeting of the assembly, development partners and respective of the World Bank in Tamale recently.

Ms Schwaber explain that, the organization was made up of more than 700 sister cities and that it was only Tamale and Kazakhstan that had been chosen among the lot to implement the project on pilot basis.

According to her, Tamale was chosen as a result of the commitment and seriousness the people have attached to relationship concept over the year. The relationship between the people of Tamale and Louisville span a period of 24years.

The project, which is expected to take off immediately after the assembly had submitted its proposal, would end in April next year.

Ms Svetlana Marjanovic of there World Bank mentioned the eradication of poverty and hunger, promotion of gender equity and women employment, achieving universal primary education and reducing child mortality as some of the objectives of the Millennium Development Goal.

“|The |world |Bank’s is committed in working towards then improving of the lot of the people in developing countries,” she stated.