A
one unit child day care center with a sitting capacity of about 30, has been
constructed with ancillary facility at a total cost of 38 thousand Ghana cedis
at Nangodi in the Nabdam district.
This forms part of Action Aid Ghana’s
five-year project on Promoting Opportunity for Women Empowerment and Rights,
POWER. The project was funded by the Netherlands.
The main objective of the
project is to contribute to the economic empowerment of about 6000 rural women
in Ghana by supporting them to increase their incomes and self-reliance, reduce
the drudgery of unpaid work and promote credible and sustainable livelihood.
Action Aid an NGO and a social justice organization which has been working in
the district in collaboration with BONATADO for the past 10 years, aims at
empowering people living in poverty and exclusion by actively organizing them
into groups, network and social movements to drive the necessary change they
desire.
According to the NGO, this will ensure gender equality, poverty
eradication and redistribution of power and resources.
Speaking to radio Ghana
during the inauguration, the Programme Manager of Action Aid Ghana Mr. Sulley
Alhassan, indicated that Action Aid has organized 43 women groups in the Upper
East Region with membership drive of 32 women each and empowered them to shift
power and redistributed gender roles in their households.
This Mr. Alhassan
noted has helped 1,376 women to engage in productive resources such as petty
trading, dry season farming and weaving.
He added that Action Aid Ghana has
constructed five childcare centers and renovated one structure in the Talensi
and Nabdam districts.
Mr. Alhassan emphasized that the vision of Action Aid
Ghana is to attain an equitable and sustainable society in which people enjoy
the right to a life of dignity and freedom from poverty and all forms of
oppression.
In a speech read on her behalf, at the inaugural ceremony the
Nabdam District Chief Executive, Agnes Anamoo, expressed appreciation for the
interventions of Action Aid Ghana and other development partners in the Nabdam
district.
Mrs. Anamoo was optimistic that the power project will strengthen the
tiers between Ghana and the Netherlands and hope that the shared cultural
heritage of the two countries remain an integral part of the prevailing
bi-lateral relations that exist between Ghana and the good people of the
Netherlands.
Mrs. Anamoo therefore assured Action Aid Ghana and their partners
that the structure will be used for its intended purpose. She used the occasion
to appeal for the scaling up of the said project to the rest of the
communities.
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