Poultry project for the disabled inaugurated at Kyiremfaso

Kyiremfaso (Ash), July 26, GNA - A 7,000-dollar poultry farm to generate income for some disabled persons in the Ashanti Region has been inaugurated at Kyiremfaso near Asante-Mampong.

The project farm, sponsored by the US Embassy in Accra under its Special Self-Help Fund Programme (SSFP), will generate income to care for some 120 physically challenged people and their dependents.

Ms Susan Driano, Chief of the Economic Section at the US Embassy, said at the inauguration that the programme that started in 1990 in Ghana had so far spent one million dollars on more than 380 projects.

"We encourage projects that will promote individual and community empowerment through increased access to health care education and income generation through productive enterprise among others", she added.

Ms Driano commended the group that has been able to sell broilers and are sponsoring three needy children in school. She told them to adopt good management practices that would help develop and sustain the farm

Mr Yaw Amankwaah, Farm Manager, thanked the US Embassy for supporting the physically challenged.