8 COMMUNITIES GET HEALTH, EDUCATION PROJECTS (PAGE 35)

EIGHT communities within the Twifo-Hemang-Lower-Denkyira District have benefited from community-based rural development projects to improve education and health.
Under the programme, six communities were each provided with a three-unit classroom block with offices and stores attached while two others had improved sanitary facilities.
The beneficiary communities are Jakwa-Krobo, Arma/Kwamoano, Mampong, Nuamakrom, Osonoegya, Wamaso and Frani.
The District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Samuel Agyebi-Kessie, who inaugurated the projects at separate functions, said each of the classroom blocks cost GH¢35,000.
Mr Agyeibi-Kessie said the construction of the classroom blocks had increased enrolment in the beneficiary communities.
He advised parents to take advantage of the facilities to educate their children to justify the investment made by the district assembly.
The DCE said the district assembly would continue to support the educational and health development of the area.
He urged pupils in the beneficiary communities to study hard and be disciplined in order to become useful citizens to shape the destiny of future generations of the area.
Mr Agyeibi-Kessie stressed that the government was committed to the development of education hence the provision of infrastructure, the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme, adding that the new educational reform could not be compromised.
He called on school management committees and parent-teacher associations, as well as the various religious educational units which had been entrusted with the new facilities, to ensure their regular maintenance for the benefit of the children in their communities.