Village Development projects to improve life at Bamenase

Bamenase (E/R), Oct. 16, GNA - The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in collaboration with the Kwaebibirem District Assembly is putting up a gari processing plant at Bamenase at a the cost of 160 million cedis for the women to increase gari production.

Briefing newsmen who toured the projects at Bamenase on Wednesday, the District Chief Executive, Mr Yaw Yiadom-Boakye said the people are also to go into snail production and fish farming.

He said 12 boxes costing 7.5 million cedis had been provided for the snail farming, jointly financed by the Clerk University of the United States and the Ghana Organisation of Volunteer Associations (GOVA).

Mr Yiadom-Boakye said eight other boxes, would soon be added to those provided.

He said the District Assembly and GOVA were constructing a pond for fish farming and that bee keeping would also be introduced in due course.

The DCE said the projects were meant to alleviate poverty and improve the standard of living of the people. The group, in the company of the chief of Bamenase, Nana Owusu Ntifu also inspected a block of three classrooms with a library and teacher's common room, a HIPC project, built at the cost of 220 million cedis.

Nana Ntifu expressed the appreciation of the people for the projects, noting that, whist the snail, fish farming and gari processing projects would fetch his people incomes for self-advancement and the development of the community, the JSS block would also solve the problem of the children travelling to schools in nearby towns.