By Kofi Ahovi
Government has made its intentions to establish sheabutter extraction factories in four communities in the Wa Municipality to empower women and also to make the sheanut industry a foreign exchange earner.
The communities are Charia, Goli, Kpaguri and Kambali. In these communities women are already engaged in small scale production of the commodity.
It is expected that the provision of the factories, which would begin next year, would help to make women in the communities more productive all-year-round, as well as encourage men to also go into the picking of the nuts, which for now has been women dominated.
In the past few years the region had experienced massive infrastructure development in education in all the districts through support from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) and donor agencies. So far about eleven six-unit classroom blocks with ancillary facilities have been constructed for the Wa West District.
There are also repairs and construction of drains, slabs, kerbs and gravelling of roads totaling 99 projects at a cost of GH¢2,705,887 in the Wa Municipal Assembly.
Other projects ongoing include the construction of an ultra modern Senior High School at Charia to relocate the T.I. Amass Senior High School at Wa. Two Senior High Schools projects are also ongoing at Funsi, in the Wa East District and Gwollu in the Sissala West District, which are among some of the districts without senior cycle school.
Through the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), five communities namely Funsi, Charia, Busia, Kaleo and Babile had benefited from small town water project while 116 communities across the region were provided with 130 boreholes.
Additionally, approval had been given for the provision of 29 boreholes for the people in the Wa West and Sissala West Districts while the Saint Francis Girls Senior High School water system had been improved.
On the road sector, a total of 1,338.2 kilometres of highway and feeder roads in the region were reshaped and graveled during the early part of this year.
The quantum of money through the RCC for development infrastructure and essential and non-consumables medicine amounted to GH¢44.22 million.
Government has made its intentions to establish sheabutter extraction factories in four communities in the Wa Municipality to empower women and also to make the sheanut industry a foreign exchange earner.
The communities are Charia, Goli, Kpaguri and Kambali. In these communities women are already engaged in small scale production of the commodity.
It is expected that the provision of the factories, which would begin next year, would help to make women in the communities more productive all-year-round, as well as encourage men to also go into the picking of the nuts, which for now has been women dominated.
In the past few years the region had experienced massive infrastructure development in education in all the districts through support from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) and donor agencies. So far about eleven six-unit classroom blocks with ancillary facilities have been constructed for the Wa West District.
There are also repairs and construction of drains, slabs, kerbs and gravelling of roads totaling 99 projects at a cost of GH¢2,705,887 in the Wa Municipal Assembly.
Other projects ongoing include the construction of an ultra modern Senior High School at Charia to relocate the T.I. Amass Senior High School at Wa. Two Senior High Schools projects are also ongoing at Funsi, in the Wa East District and Gwollu in the Sissala West District, which are among some of the districts without senior cycle school.
Through the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), five communities namely Funsi, Charia, Busia, Kaleo and Babile had benefited from small town water project while 116 communities across the region were provided with 130 boreholes.
Additionally, approval had been given for the provision of 29 boreholes for the people in the Wa West and Sissala West Districts while the Saint Francis Girls Senior High School water system had been improved.
On the road sector, a total of 1,338.2 kilometres of highway and feeder roads in the region were reshaped and graveled during the early part of this year.
The quantum of money through the RCC for development infrastructure and essential and non-consumables medicine amounted to GH¢44.22 million.
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