Environmental education launched at Upper Denkyira West
The Upper Denkyira West District Chief Executive, Mr Ambrose Amoa Nhia, has commended Perseus Mining Limited and Fan Milk Limited for their interest and support to the District School Health and Agricultural Programme.
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At the ceremony to launch a schools environmental sanitation education campaign by the Ghana National Scholarship Beneficiaries Association (GNASBA) at Ayanfuri in the Upper Denkyira West District in Central Region, Perseus presented 2,000 tree seedlings while Fan Milk donated 60 litter bins and 60 footballs to support the programme .
Mr Ahia said matters concerning the environment were of global importance and any institution that assists in inculcating environmental awarness in the youth should be encouraged and commended.
In all, about 1000 schoolchildren drawn from Ayamfuri, Denkyira German, Nkotumso and other communities took part in a three-hour clean-up exercise at Ayamfuri as part of the launch.
The DCE said the District Assembly was holding consultations with Perseus to help to reclaim lands destroyed through illegal mining in the district.
Presenting the seedlings, Perseus’s Environmental Manager, Mr. Michael Ampim Sackey, said the mine was proud to serve the communities in its operational areas, most importantly on matters concerning education of the youth in the environment.
Baffour Akwasi Oppong, the National Chairman of GNASBA, presented the bins and footballs on behalf of Fan Milk. He said the association was committed to taking environmental sanitation education to the doorstep of the people and has so far distributed over 1000 litter bins and footballs to selected schools countrywide.
He said the association would ensure that the seedlings were distributed to schools and communities and planted to improve the health of the environment.
