The chronic problem of lack of potable water for the people of Kumawu and other communities in the relatively new Sekyere-Afram Plains District of Ashanti, will soon be over.
The government has awarded a contract to Tahal Consulting Engineers Limited, an Israeli firm, for the construction of a dam on the Afram River to supply potable water to all major communities in the district.
Mr Jacob Kofi Dankwah, the District Chief Executive, told the second ordinary meeting of the District Assembly here last Thursday, that the project scheduled to be completed within three years, “is at the preparatory stage.”
The Assembly, he said, would construct new bore-holes and rehabilitate existing ones with the support of Obournan Rural Action Programme (ORAP), an NGO and the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church.
The beneficiary communities include Apebiakyere, Akotosu, Winamba, Dangomba, Mamprusi, Sekyere, Wonoo and Banko.
On education, the DCE said the government, with the support of the GETFund, would construct two six-unit classroom blocks with offices, stores and sanitary facilities in the district this year.
The Saint Ambroe Roman Catholic Primary School at Abenoa, and the Salvation Army Primary school at Dadease, are the beneficiaries of the project being undertaken under the “Schools Under Trees and Basic School Rehabilitation Programme (SUTBREP).
Mr Dankwah announced that the Assembly had received its first consignment of 2,000 school uniforms for free distribution to school children in deprived communities.
He said it had also been allocated GH˘1,296,077.73 as its share of the District Assemblies Common Fund for this year, out of which GH˘522,312.47 would be used to fully pay for on-going projects given out on contract in 2008.
He said GH˘319,262.39 had been set aside to finance a number of projects proposed for this year, while GH˘363,500 would be used to finance other routine administrative projects and programmes of the Assembly.
The DCE indicated that the National Plantation Development Programme was on course in the district, saying that 300 hectares of the degraded part of the Krowan Forest Reserve and another 300-hectare land at Dagomba had been demarcated for the programme.
The government has awarded a contract to Tahal Consulting Engineers Limited, an Israeli firm, for the construction of a dam on the Afram River to supply potable water to all major communities in the district.
Mr Jacob Kofi Dankwah, the District Chief Executive, told the second ordinary meeting of the District Assembly here last Thursday, that the project scheduled to be completed within three years, “is at the preparatory stage.”
The Assembly, he said, would construct new bore-holes and rehabilitate existing ones with the support of Obournan Rural Action Programme (ORAP), an NGO and the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church.
The beneficiary communities include Apebiakyere, Akotosu, Winamba, Dangomba, Mamprusi, Sekyere, Wonoo and Banko.
On education, the DCE said the government, with the support of the GETFund, would construct two six-unit classroom blocks with offices, stores and sanitary facilities in the district this year.
The Saint Ambroe Roman Catholic Primary School at Abenoa, and the Salvation Army Primary school at Dadease, are the beneficiaries of the project being undertaken under the “Schools Under Trees and Basic School Rehabilitation Programme (SUTBREP).
Mr Dankwah announced that the Assembly had received its first consignment of 2,000 school uniforms for free distribution to school children in deprived communities.
He said it had also been allocated GH˘1,296,077.73 as its share of the District Assemblies Common Fund for this year, out of which GH˘522,312.47 would be used to fully pay for on-going projects given out on contract in 2008.
He said GH˘319,262.39 had been set aside to finance a number of projects proposed for this year, while GH˘363,500 would be used to finance other routine administrative projects and programmes of the Assembly.
The DCE indicated that the National Plantation Development Programme was on course in the district, saying that 300 hectares of the degraded part of the Krowan Forest Reserve and another 300-hectare land at Dagomba had been demarcated for the programme.
