Monday 17th February, 2020
By Abebe
Dawuni GNA
Yendi (N/R) Feb 17, GNA – About 100,000
mosquito nets are to be distributed to households in the Yendi Municipality and
Mion District of the Northern Region to help prevent malaria and save lives.
The United States of America (USA) Baptist
General Association of Virginia in collaboration with Global Mission Resource
Centre (GMRC) Yendi, and North Eastern Mission Field of Ghana Baptist
Convention have procured the mosquito nets for distribution to households in
the area.
Reverend Dean Miller of River Road Church,
USA, who led members of these Churches to begin the distribution of the
mosquito nets to households at Yendi said it was in response to a request by
Pastor Emmanuel Kwabena Mustapha, Executive Officer of GMRC and Minister of the
North Eastern Mission Field of Ghana Baptist Convention to help reduce malaria
in the area.
Rev Mustapha said the church was committed to
safeguarding the welfare of humanity, saying besides the distribution of the
mosquito nets, the Church also planned to construct household latrines in some
communities to address open defecation in the area.
He said the Church would also construct wells
in some communities in the area to ensure access to potable water.
Meanwhile, Rev Mustapha, who will retire in
June, this year, at the age of 60 years as the Minister of the North Eastern
Mission Field of Ghana Baptist Convention, has handed over to Pastor Francis
Baaye as the new Minister of the Church.
GNA