By Emmanuel Nyatsikor
Adaklu Kodzobi (V/R), July 4, GNA – Mr. Kwame Agbodza, Roads and Highways Minister Friday pledged his support and commitment for a three-pronged ultra-modern ICT Centre being built for Adaklu Kodzobi Basic school.
He made an initial donation of 20,000 Ghana Cedis towards the project.
This was after an appeal made to him by Togbe Dzegblade IV, Chief of Adaklu Kodzobi when he paid a visit to the community as part of his thank you tour of the Adaklu Constituency.
Togbe Dzegblade lamented that the community has never benefitted from any government sponsored project and called on the Adaklu District Assembly to consider the community in its development agenda.
The one-story building project, which also has washrooms attached to it when completed, will also serve as a science laboratory and a library.
It was partly financed by the children of the late Eric Earl, a former Chief Education Officer in the Volta region, and his wife with an amount of 25,000 pounds sterling.
The funding was made through Ghana School Aid (GSA), an NGO founded by the Earl family in Britain 40 years ago to support the education of children in rural Ghana.
The amount was said to have been raised through the sale of memorabilia and various antiques of the late Eric Earl and his wife by their children.
The amount will also be supplemented by GSA with its charitable funds, with the community raising one-third of the cost of the project which is now at the lintel level.
Togbe Dzegblade pledged to pay one-third of the cost of the project which the community was to pay for.
Mr. Agbodza said the project was very dear to his heart as it would serve not only the ICT needs of Adaklu Kodzobi but also the entire Adaklu when completed.
Mr. Jerry Yao Ameko, Adaklu District Chief Executive disclosed that plans were far advanced to build a community ICT centre in the district.
Mr. Agbodza was accompanied on the tour by the Adaklu Constituency executives of the National Democratic Congress.
GNA
Edited by Maxwell Awumah/Kenneth Odeng Adade