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MIDA to spend 75 million dollars on projects
Awutu-Beraku(C/R), April 3, Ghanadot/GNA - The Millennium
Development Authority (MIDA) is to spend 75 million dollars
on education, water, sanitation and electrification projects
in the 23 selected districts under the Millennium Challenge
Account Programme this year.
Mrs Sue Brown, Acting America Ambassador to Ghana announced
this when she cut the sod for the rehabilitation of a six
classroom block for the Anglican Primary and Junior High
School at Awutu Beraku on Wednesday.
The project is among four selected schools rehabilitation
projects to be carried on in the district at an estimated
cost of 226,000 Ghana Cedis.
She said as outlined in the 2006 agreement between the
United State of America and Ghana, the Millennium Challenge
Compact (MCC) seeks not only to reduce poverty through
agricultural transformation, but also to improve the living
conditions of the beneficiary districts.
Mrs Brown said to optimize the impact of the projects; MIDA
would have to leverage
investment by collaborating with the government's agencies
and development partners.
She said the USAID, through its Community Teacher Programme,
would recruit, train and support Senior High School
graduates to teach in MIDA schools.
Mrs Brown said a total of 65 Primary and Junior High Schools
would be rehabilitated in the selected districts under the
MIDA to enhance quality education.
She stressed that under the second phase of the MIDA,
construction and furnishing of
schools, teachers' quarters and ancillary facilities would
be provided in the beneficiary districts.
Mrs Brown noted that the success of MIDA schools would
depend on the determination, commitment and initiative of
the beneficiary communities.
Mr Martin Eson-Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
MIDA said the rehabilitation
ceremony marked the beginning of work on the four schools in
the District.
He mentioned the beneficiary schools as Senya-Beraku
Primary, Bawjiase A and B Primary, Chocho and Awutu Beraku
Primary and Junior High Schools.
He said contracts would soon be awarded for the
rehabilitation of schools in Gomoa West and East, Akwapim
South, Kwahu South and North, Sekyere East and
Savelugu-Nanton.
Mr Solomon Abam Quaye, Awutu-Senya District Chief Executive,
urged the people in the area to maintain the school
buildings to prolong their life span.
He appealed to the MIDA to rehabilitate the Obrachire-Awutu
Beraku road to facilitate
evacuation of farm products to market centres.
GNA
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