By Solomon Gumah
Dalun (N/R), March 17, GNA – The Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA), an NGO, has donated 100 bags of cement and a cash of GHc5,000.00 towards the reconstruction of the Dalun-Lana (Chief of Dalun) Palace at Dalun in the Kumbungu District.
The gesture was in line with GDCA’s commitment to working with communities to empower them to achieve their desired development.
Alhaji Abdulai Baba, Vice Chairman, Governing Board of GDCA, who led a delegation from the organisation to hand over the items to the Dalun-Lana at Dalun, emphasised that a chief’s palace was everyone’s home, hence need to contribute to support its reconstruction.
The reconstruction of the palace is an initiative of the Dalun-Lana Tapha Mahamadu (II), who was enskinned Chief of the area by Ya-Na Abukari (II) in February, last year.
Dalun is an important farming area in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region.
Alhaji Osman Abdel-Rahman, Executive Director, GDCA explained that the organisation worked with communities, and traditional authorities were key in the communities, hence the gesture.
He added that “Of course, Dalun is our home, and we must be part of its development, hence our support towards the reconstruction of the palace.”
GDCA’s subsidiary organisation; Dalun Simli Centre, is located at Dalun where the organisation regularly hosts various events.
Dalun-Lana Tapha Mahamadu (II), Chief of Dalun, who spoke through an Elder, expressed gratitude to GDCA for the gesture saying it would go a long way to support the palace development agenda.
He commended GDCA for its various interventions in the area saying “GDCA, over the years, has been very helpful to the Dalun community and beyond.”
He appealed to other organisations and stakeholders to emulate the gesture to support the reconstruction of the palace.
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