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EXPANDING INFRASTRUCTURE
HOUSING
Health
In 2014, 21 youth athletes (aged 17 and
under) represented Ghana at the African
Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana
competing in athletics, weightlifting,
badminton, swimming, table tennis
and cycling. The athletes bagged 9
medals (8 silver and 1 bronze), mainly in
weightlifting and athletics.
Later that year, Martha Bissah stunned
the world when she won Ghana’s first
ever Olympic gold medal at any level
in any sport at the Youth Olympics in
Nanjing, China.
In 2015, a contingent of four athletes
(three in athletics and one in swimming)
competed in the Commonwealth Youth
Games in the Samoan capital of Apia.
History repeated itself when another
youth athlete, long jumper Richard
Seklorwu, of T. I. Ahmadiyyah Senior
High School in Kumasi won Ghana’s first
ever gold medal in the Commonwealth
Youth Games.
A few days later, Ghana’s contingent
to the All-Africa Games in Brazzaville,
Congo, came home with 19 medals.
On the backs of two gold medals from
men’s lawn tennis and women’s soccer
(a first-ever AAG gold medal for the
Black Queens) respectively, and with
the bulk of the medals (8) coming from
the athletics squad, it was encouraging
to also see medals from para-athletics,
judo, taekwondo, table tennis and
boxing as this indicated the depth of
quality in Ghana’s sporting disciplines,
underscoring our efforts to promote
other sporting disciplines in addition to
soccer.
An aggressive affordable housing programme has
been rolled out to provide more Ghanaian families
in the lower to middle income bracket with decent
homes.