NGO to establish model village in Tongu District

Sogakope (V/R), Oct. 27, GNA - The Voices of African Mothers (VAM), a non-governmental organisation based in the United States of America, has acquired 100 acres of land at the cost of 35,000 dollars to establish a model village at Sogakope in the South Tongu District. Nana (Mrs) Fosu Randall, a Ghanaian woman based in the US and founder of VAM told the Ghana News Agency that the project would be a centre of excellence to provide quality education for the people in the area, especially women.

She said the project would comprise, a school complex including a vocational training centre, administrative blocks, housing for staff, conference centre to accommodate about 300 persons and a hospital. She said with the increasing population of the District there was the need to provide such modern facilities and focus on the training of women between the ages of 14 and 45 in a wide range of skills to make them either employable or to establish their own businesses. Mr David Adade Boafo, a lawyer and an official of the NGO said work would soon begin on the project in collaboration with the District Assembly to provide the facility.

He said the District would also benefit from literacy education, health facilities and nutritional awareness as well as conflict resolution skills.

In a related development, Friends of John William Education Centre, a non-governmental organization based in the US, has also donated 200 computers, 40 laptops and its networking equipment to the John William Montessori School in Kumasi worth over 400,000 dollars. Barbara A. Knaub, Vice President, VAM who made this known to the