KEDA registers over 500 households onto the LEAP programme

By
Eunice Tekie Tei, GNA

Abetifi (E/R), Sept 1, GNA – Mr. Isaac
Agyapong, the Kwahu East District Chief Executive (DCE), has said the assembly
has registered over 500 households onto the Livelihood Empowerment Against
Poverty (LEAP) programme.

Disclosing this, during a town hall meeting
organised in collaboration with the District Information Services Department
(ISD), he said the government was committed in improving lives of the people
through the various policies introduced.

He added that the assembly had also
constructed and renovated over ten classroom blocks at the Abetifi and Hweehwee
R/C Schools, Pepease Presbyterian, Oboyan D/A Primary and the Nkwatia SDA
Schools.

To provide quality healthcare delivery to the
people in the district, he mentioned that the assembly had constructed CHPS
Compound at Kwahu Nteso and provided the Kwahu Tafo Clinic with a 30-bed
capacity.

Mr Agyapong said the assembly had started with
the construction of over 150 mechanised boreholes at Nkwatia, Kwahu Pepease,
Abetifi and Aduamoa to help reduce the scarcity of water in the area and had
also provided toilet facilities for the people of Pepease, Borokuwaa and
Nkwatia to promote good sanitation practices and to curb the rampant open
defecation facing them.

He said plans were in the pipeline of
constructing all accessible roads in the district to help promote the socio-
economic activities of the people and hinted that work on the connection of
some communities in the district to the national grid had commenced in Orobon,
Miaso, Atta Ne Atta 1 and 2 and Nkwantanan communities.

Mr Agyapong said all uncompleted projects in
the district were been worked on to enhance development therefore assured that
the assembly would continue to mobilise funds to help develop the district.

Present at the durbar were; community members,
assembly members, traditional authorities and other departmental heads.

GNA