Palm oil extraction project for Asekesu women’s group
A $11,000 palm oil extraction project for the Asekesu Peace and Love Women’s Group in Asekesu in the New Juaben Municipality has been inaugurated.
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The project was funded under the US Ambassador self-help grant with support from 4H Ghana, a non-governmental organisation based in Koforidua.
At the ceremony, the Economic Chief of the US Embassy in Ghana, Mr Jimmy Mauldin, said since 1990, the ambassador’s project had given a total of $1.7 million for various communities and groups to undertake various economic ventures. He said this year, 11 organisations have been given a total of $80,000 to improve upon the economic well-being of the people.
Recounting his stay in the Northern Region some years back, he said he saw challenges that women faced and, therefore, hoped that smaller systems such as the oil palm extraction project would go a long way to improve upon businesses in the communities.
Invest profit
He urged the women to reinvest the profit they accrued into the project and use the proceeds to educate their children in school, and hoped that the project would make the needed impact on the women’s lives.
The Executive Director of 4H Ghana, Mr Doku Boateng Appiah, thanked the US Embassy for the gesture and was hopeful that the project would help improve the living conditions of the people in the area.
He urged the women’s group to build on what the embassy had provided and ensure its sustainability.
The Deputy New Juaben Municipal Coordinating Director, Miss Stella Pawun commended 4H Ghana for encouraging women to establish their own enterprises and further commended the embassy for partnering Ghana to assist the needy, particularly women, in rural communities.
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The Assemblyman for the Asekesu Electoral Area, Mr Korlorn Tettey, thanked the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection for donating palm kernel equipment to the group and appealed for a tricycle to help cart palm fruits from their farms to marketing centres.