CR TO BENEFIT FROM 7 EU PROJECTS (PAGE 23)

THE Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region is to benefit from seven projects valued at GH¢121,800 which were aimed at poverty reduction under the European Union (EU) sponsored programme.
The programme is a joint effort of the government, the EU, the assembly and the communities within the municipal assembly to promote the development agenda of the rural communities.
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe, made this known when she inaugurated a GH¢44,470 three-classroom block for the Ayensudo Primary School at Ayensudo, under the EU programme.
The EU contributed GH¢35,576, while the KEEA and the community contributed GH¢8,894.
Mrs Benyiwa-Doe commended the EU for its assistance under the programme which provided social infrastructural development, under which a large array of schools, clinics and day care centres were provided in the rural communities.
She said in the area of income generation, many people, especially, women had been assisted in one form or the other to start different projects to help them find life comfortable.
The regional minister cited that various sums of money had been given to the vulnerable in society to undertake projects such as gari processing, bee-keeping, honey processing, vegetable gardening, agro processing and fish farming.
She commended the EU for its efforts to enhance the quality of life of the people under the programme.
The Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the EU, Mr Filiburto Ceriani-Sebregondi, said the EU would continue to partner the government in the execution of projects aimed at poverty reduction in the country.
The Municipal Co-ordinating Director, Alhaji Dramani Saaka, who chaired the function, was full of praise to the EU for its contribution towards poverty reduction in the area.
In a related development, the EU has handed over 1,600 copies of a book entitled “Building on the past to create a better future” to the KEEA Municipal Assembly to promote tourism in the area.
The book, sponsored with two million euros from the EU, forms part of the Elmina “2015 Strategy crafted by the EU, in collaboration with the assembly between 2004 and 2006.
Both the former Central Regional Minister, Nana Ato Arthur and the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr George Frank Asmah, thanked the EU for its support for the assembly to promote tourism in the area.
The minister gave the assurance that her administration would support the collaboration between the EU and the assembly to enhance tourism in the area.