SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

MTN GHANA Foundation, as part of
2019 World Literacy Day, which was
celebrated on September 9, 2019,
partnered with Akwasi Antwi
Foundation (AAF) to build a library for
the Tema Community 20 and its
environs.
According to Dr Daniel Baffuor-
Awuah, the founder of the AAF, the
library was built in honour of his late
son, Akwasi Antwi, whose passion for
books and children was something the
family will not easily forget, hence the
library to keep his vision alive.
Mr Ebenezer Terpkeh, Education
Portfolio Advisor, MTN Ghana,
explained that being literate empowered
an individual to contribute towards the
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MTN Ghana Foundation, AAF
build library for Tema Comm. 20
BY ROSEMONDBOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
The front view of the library
Socio-economic development of Ghana
and also help in achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals on
education.
“We are tapping into the global
agenda that children are able to read or
have access to read and fill the literacy
rate in Ghana. The MTN Ghana
Foundation, in respect of our education
project, we build libraries across the
country, in schools and communities;
this is one way of consolidating children
to have interest in reading,” he explained.
The Foundation donated to the
library GH¢5,000.00 worth of comic
books, a computer for the librarian and
MTN TurboNet.
Other stakeholders for the library are
Abundance Grace Baptist Church,
Rainbow Trust Foundation, Red Oak
Books and Lantern Books.
CTL Africa launches ‘Live2lead’ 2019
THE CENTRE for Transformational
Leadership in Africa (CTL Africa) has officially
launched this year’s leadership summit
‘Live2lead’, which will be simulcast in
Ghana from Atlanta.
This year’s edition, which is the third CTL
Africa is hosting, is on the theme ‘Developing
leaders for today and tomorrow’.
Speaking at the launch, Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of CTL Africa, Samuel Anyim,
emphasized the need for leadership training
across all sectors in the country.
He also called for a national awakening to
bring the concept of leadership to the forefront
of Ghana’s national discourse and into all levels
of our educational curriculum.
He said this year’s theme was to draw
attention to the gaping gap in the development
of our human capital, including “training and
retaining where all of us unlearn and relearn the
fundamentals of leadership. Our children
should be taught these lessons from day one.”
“Exemplary leadership – we have too many
examples of failed and corrupt leadership, that
our children have little choice but to emulate
same. Apprenticeship – our young people need
to be afforded the opportunity to learn on the
job, to be coached and guided on how to lead,”
he said.
Mr Anyim noted that CTL Africa was set up
to equip people with the above skills and also to
bring to them programmes such as ‘Live2lead’
to showcase people who have led well.
Highlighting lessons to be learned at this
year’s edition, he said “John C. Maxwell will
teach practical ways that leaders can seek to
develop those around them in order to
maximize the returns on the investment in their
people.”
“Nana Ansah Kwao IV will use his
experience as a transformational and influential
chief of Adumasa to demonstrate how anyone
can lead from anywhere, particularly how
traditional leaders can use their positions to
help build leaders to lead the nation,” he added
The event is scheduled to take place on
October 11 and simulcast in over 300 sites
around the world, including the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in Accra.
Live2lead 2019 will have great speakers like
Maxwell, Rachel Hollis, Marcus Buckingham,
Angela Ahrendts, Chris Hogan and Ghana’s
Nana Ansah Kwao.
About CTL Africa
The Centre for Transformational
Leadership in Africa (CTL Africa) aims to
bridge the gap between traditional education
and real life by providing knowledge, programs,
and facilities necessary for successful living but
which are not taught in schools. These include
leadership principles in all aspects of life such
as self-sacrifice, disciplined living, identifying
life purpose by committing to resolving
problems of the world (self-leadership);
business leadership (entrepreneurship), and
political leadership among others.
THE MUNICIPAL Chief Executive
(MCE) of the Krowor Municipal
Assembly, Mr Joshua Nii Bortey, has
given cash and items, all worth GH¢
105, 000, to support 69 people
living with disability in the
constituency.
According to him, the maiden
edition of the disbursement of the
disability fund received a large
number of applications but only a
total of 69 applicants could be
taken care of in the first
disbursement.
Mr Bortey made this known
when he donated items such as
deep freezers, wheel chairs, sewing
machines, an oven for baking
pastries and its cylinder, a fufupounding
machine and other
items and cash to the disabled
people.
“As a government, we
strongly hold the conviction that
one of the cardinal means of
minimizing poverty among all
THE MINISTER of
Fisheries and
Aquaculture
Development (MoFAD),
Mrs Elizabeth Afoley
Quaye, has made a
personal donation of GH¢10, 000 to
support a sachet water production
project being embarked on by the
inmates of the James Camp Prisons.
“I’m making to you a personal
donation of GH¢10, 000 towards the
water production project you are
undertaking. Yes, I'm donating
GH¢10,000 for that. It is to show
appreciation for the good work
Madam Patience Baffoe-Bonnie is
doing and this is dear to my heart. As
a mother, I want to help the youth
and we are both women. I'm
impressed about your work and God
bless you.
“I appreciate the dedication of the
OIC; she is the dreamer and the doer
of her wonderful job and heart desires
to touch lives. What I believe in as a
Minister is that you cannot live your
life paying attention to yourself alone;
but you also do what God wants you
to do to touch lives,” she said.
Mrs Quaye, who is also the
Member of Parliament for Krowor
constituency in the Accra metropolis,
said this when she was addressing a
gathering of prison officers, prisoners
and the media, as well as officers from
the MoFAD, during the maiden tilapia
harvest at the James Camp Prison.
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KroMA supports 69 PWDs with GH¢105,000
BY PRINCE ESSIEN
More skills training for
effective reintegration
Mrs Baffoe-Bonnie, Officer incharge
(OIC) of the prisons, who
doubles as the Deputy Director of
Prisons (DDP) and the Acting Greater
Accra Regional Prisons Commander,
called the Minister’s attention to a few
other things that “we do to reform,
rehabilitate and reintegrate inmates
into the larger society.”
According to her, “with the agric
sector, inmates are taught modern
techniques of farming, especially the
growing of vegetables, and the rearing
of livestock and poultry”.
PWDs and particularly those outside
the formal sector of employment
is to empower them with skills
and provide them with the
necessary tools to work, hence our
quest to support our disabled
brothers and sisters in order that
they would be able to develop a
high sense of responsibility in
terms of managing their own
businesses; build their capabilities
to enable them to advocate and
assert their rights; and offer quality
services to the rest of society,” he
said.
He also added that though the
streets were largely spared from the
nuisance of some PWDs begging,
he could not guarantee that this
development would remain so as the
municipality grew rapidly.
“I wish to emphasise that the
focus of the disability fund is not
just for PWDs who belong to
associations but to all who fall
within the category of people for
which the funds have been allocated.
Indeed, this provision will safeguard
Fisheries Minister donates
GH¢10, 000 to James Camp Prison
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com
•Mr Joshua Nii Bortey, Municipal Chief Executive of the
Krowor Municipal Assembly
•Mrs Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister of MoFAD (4th L) and other
dignitaries at the programme
She said the traditional
training programmes,
including block moulding,
carpentry, masonry,
tailoring, have been
expanded to include
fashion and designing and
sewing of security service
uniforms. There were also
shoe making and skills on
electrical.
On the issue of modern
industrial activities, she said
the inmates were taken
through kente weaving,
batik, tie-and-dye, wig
weaving, bridal accessories
and fascinators. Others
were bead making, door
and bedside mat
production, canopy
making, sachet water production,
barbering, bamboo works and
aquarium construction.
“Currently, we have a new product
specially designed for uniforms to be
launched next month and we humbly
entreat the general public to patronize
it,” the OIC further stated.
She urged the media, “to take a
look at our various projects and
inform the general public about our
laudable efforts.”
the interest of every Tom, Dick and
Harry who is disabled,” he added.
The MCE also urged all
stakeholders, particularly the DFMC,
to work diligently and transparently
and ensure judicious use of the
funds so that the canker of begging
would completely be eradicated.
He promised that the committee
would go the extra mile and develop
new strategies that would better the
lives of people with disabilities.
“My staff and I will be
monitoring your activities
periodically to ensure that your
operations are above board and in
consonance with the guidelines of
the National Council for Persons
with Disabilities (NCPD),” he said.
The beneficiaries thanked the
MCE Bortey, and the Member of
Parliament for the Krowor
Constituency, Madam Elizabeth
Afoley Quaye, for “remembering
them and not making them feel
out”.
Aquaculture for
Food and Jobs
This year, MoFAD collaborated
with the RAANAN Fish Feed to
revamp and stock the James Camp
Prison fish pond with 1,600
fingerlings of tilapia and also donated
235 bags of RAANAN fish feed
leading to the harvest today.
The AF&J started in 2018 with a
series of workshops for stakeholders
to buy into the idea. Implementation
of the whole programme began in
2018, when the Ministry approved of
the pilot implementation of ‘One
district, one Illustration per region’.
The pilot programme began in the
Ashanti Region in April this year
(2019). Pentecost Youth fish farmers
of New Edubiase in the Adansi-South
District and Osei Tutu Senior High
School were selected for the pilot
programme.
MoFAD has so far constructed 10
(500m2) ponds for groups and four
(500m2) ponds for the schools while
stocking of tilapia and catfish and the
supply of fish feed will be done this
month (September).
Ehi celebrates
Galiza
BY PATRICE SYLVESTER
SELORMEY, EHI
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE CHIEFS and people
of Ehi and its surrounding
villages in the Volta Region
would climax this year’
Galiza festival with a grand
durbar at Ehi on September
28.
The Ehi Nutome
“Galiza” is an
agricultural/development
festival instituted by the
Dufia of Ehi, Togbui
Dzeble Adukpo IV, and his
council of 21 sub-chiefs in
collaboration with Ehi
Development Council
(EDC) to strengthen the
socio-cultural fibre of the
community.
Each year in September,
the people of the
community light up the
Ketu North in the Volta
Region as they celebrate the
Ehi Nutome “Galiza”.
The main objective of
the festival is to raise funds
to support self-help projects,
to disseminate information
to the people and to
promote and nurture the
locally made ‘gali’ (gari) and
all agri-businesses since Ehi
is primarily an agro-based
society.
It is also aimed at
celebrating self-motivated
determination and excellent
communal spirit of the
people over the years. This
year’s festival, according to
Togbui Adukpo, is on the
theme ‘Empowering Women
through Agriculture and
Entrepreneurship’.
According to the chief,
the theme was carefully
chosen since the main
occupation of the women is
gari processing.
Togbui Adukpo
explained to DAILY
HERITAGE that this year’s
“Galiza”, started on Friday,
September 6, 2019, would
continue to be an exciting
and fun-filled celebration
which would also be used
for re-union and dispute
resolution in order to
strengthen their sense of
community involvement.
He said it was also being
used to celebrate their
cultural heritage and
traditions with pump and
pageantry.
A source close to the
EDC) said there was amost
a month-long line-up of
events from the first week
of September till the grand
durbar on the last Saturday
of the same month.
Activities planned for the
festival include inter-school
cultural display at the
market square, football gala
between various male and
female youth teams, cleanup
exercises by all residents,
beauty pageant, crusade,
floats, keep-fit work-outs
and health screening,
cultural displays, food
bazaar, visit to key historical
sites and Ahi grand homecoming
durbar .
The climax of the
festival, the grand durbar of
Chiefs and people at the Ehi
E P Primary School park.
It is also aimed
at celebrating
self-motivated
determination
and excellent
communal spirit
of the people
over the years.
This year’s
festival,
according to
Togbui Adukpo,
is on the theme
‘Empowering
Women through
Agriculture and
Entrepreneurship
’.