Desks for Amenfi East Schools

Aniamote (W/R), July 30, GNA - The Government is to provide 13,000 dual desks to meet the furniture requirements of basic schools in the Wassa Amenfi East District by December this year.

In addition, the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom and the Amenfi East District Assembly would supply uniforms to children in the district whose parents could not afford. Madam Doris Gyapomah Oduro, District Chief Executive (DCE), announced these when she interacted with the Chief and people of Aniamote on Wednesday, as part of her familiarisation tour of communities in the district.

It was also to explain policies and programmes of the Government and to rally their support for their effective implementation. She said 55 communities in the District would be connected to the national electricity grid while a number of roads had been awarded on contract for upgrading.

Madam Oduro said the District Assembly would support communities that initiated their own development projects.

She said 200 youths would be employed in the agricultural sector while another 200 would be trained to teach in basic schools.

At Breprow, the DCE adopted a 13-year-old girl, Rita Teye, a pupil of the local D/A primary school who is an orphan after she had presented a paper on the views of children in the community to the DCE. Madam Oduro said the District Assembly would pay her school fees up to the tertiary level.

The two-day tour took her to 15 communities where she addressed enthusiastic crowds at separate forums.

They included Aniamote, Subriso, Appiankwanta, Osumankrom, Bawdie, Breprow and Bowia.

The people who are predominantly cash and food crop farmers expressed their appreciation for the Government's determination to improve the lives of Ghanaians and farmers in particular.

They mentioned lack of good roads, health facilities, potable water and electricity as some of the problems facing them.