Story: Tim Dzamboe, Kpeve
THE South Dayi District Assembly has benefited from the Micro-Finance and Small Loan Scheme with the disbursement of a total of GH¢68,400 to 10 groups engaged in private businesses and agriculture in the district.
Apart from the micro-finance facility, seven women’s groups in the district have benefited from schemes from the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs and the Ministry of Fisheries, worth GH¢15,000, for the cultivation of vegetables, as well as fish and food processing.
The South Dayi District Chief Executive (DCE), Mrs Woyram Boachie-Danquah, announced this when she addressed the third ordinary meeting of the Assembly at Kpeve.
She urged Assembly members to educate their electorate on available facilities and encourage them to form groups to be able to access the facilities to improve economic activities to enhance their living standards.
Mrs Boachie-Danquah said as of the end of December 2007, the Assembly had generated revenue of GH¢52, 845.52 from local sources as against a target of GH¢56, 800.
She expressed the hope that with functional local councils, they would come up with ideas that would enhance revenue mobilisation.
On the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Mrs Boachie-Danquah disclosed that 811 people had been employed in the agriculture, health extension, education, sanitation, internship and voluntary service modules.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, Dr Kwame Ampofo, commended the Assembly members for their good performance last year.
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