By
Robert Tachie Menson, GNA
Dormaa-Ahenkro
(B/A), Nov. 12, GNA – The Dormaa Central Municipal Assembly has presented an
amount of GH¢149,870.00 to 106 Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in the
Municipality to support them in economic ventures and livelihood empowerment.
Mr Drissa Ouattara,
the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), said on Monday when he was addressing a
Municipal Meet the Press event organised by the Assembly at Dormaa-Ahenkro in
the Bono Region.
The programme was a
platform for the MCE to give account of development projects and other
activities of the Assembly since January 2017 to the present day, and it was
attended by religious leaders, traditional rulers, workers of both the formal
and informal sectors and the general public.
Mr Ouattara said the
amount disbursed covered businesses start-up kits purchases, education,
agriculture inputs and medical bills of some of the beneficiaries that
comprised the visually impaired, albinos and physically challenged persons.
He stated that the
implementation of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP), a social
cash transfer which targets the extremely poor and vulnerable households has
recorded a sharp increase in the number
of beneficiary communities in the area from 30 to 60.
A total of 1,066
beneficiary households had been selected and enrolled as at 2016, Mr. Ouattara
stated, adding that out of the additional 30 new communities, 15 of them have
been enumerated (data collection) and enrolled on the E-Zwich platform of the
LEAP programme.
The MCE said 1,112
beneficiary households qualified from the 15 communities enumerated and
indicated that the remaining fifteen communities too would soon be computed and
enrolled on the programme.
Mr Ouattara said the
Assembly would continue to make the health concern of the people a major
priority on its developmental agenda and assured of its effective collaboration
with the Health Directorate to eliminate the needless and avoidable child and
maternal mortalities in the Municipality.
He said the Assembly
was making strenuous effort to complete the Reproductive Health Centre under
construction to enable the Health Directorate to use the facility for child and
maternal healthcare delivery services.
The MCE mentioned a
number of on-going projects in the Municipality, including a two-Unit
Kindergarten Classroom Block with dining hall, resting room, office, store and
six-seater water closet toilet at Kofiasua Primary School at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
Others are
construction of a Youth Resource Centre, a 1000 metric tons grain warehouse and
ancillary structures as well as Community Based Health Planning Services (CHPS)
Compound at Amakyekrom and Kofiasua.
GNA
