Akwansa Kokodo gets new school block

Akwansa Kokodo (C/R), Aug. 16, GNA - Plan Ghana, a child centred community development organisation that seeks to create an enabling environment for children to realise their full potentials is constructing a block of six units, office, store and a library for the people of Akwansa-Kokodo in the Mfantseman District.

The project estimated at 767.563 million cedis will include, sanitary facilities, furniture and water storage.

Sweet and Maxwell, an organisation in the United Kingdom (UK), donated funds for the project.

Speaking at the function, Mr Jacob Turkson, Manager of Mankessim Programme Area of Plan Ghana said the organisation had been operating in 44 communities including Akwansa-Kokodo for the past 12 years. Mr Turkson said the citizens had benefited from a pre-school structure, capacity building for pre-school teachers at the National Nursery Teachers Training Institute and some primary school teachers at the University of Winneba in the teaching of English and Mathematics. The School children were also supplied with books and stationery to enhance teaching and learning.

Plan Ghana has also helped the community to construct household latrines and constructed drainage systems to check the perennial flooding of the community.

It also helped the people to establish woodlots, trained health volunteers and traditional birth attendants to cater for their health needs.

Representatives of Maxwell and Sweets who came from the UK to witness the sod-cutting ceremony said they were aware of the good work Plan Ghana was doing for the children of the country and added that this had encouraged them to accept the proposal submitted by the organisation to fund the project.

Nana Akwansah IV, chief of the town expressed gratitude to Plan Ghana and Maxwell and Sweet for providing the project. He gave an assurance that he would organise the people to offer communal labour to facilitate its early completion.