The Coalition for Change (C4C), a nongovernmental organisation has distributed assorted educational materials and household items to people in the Upper West and Upper East Regions.
The Christian African Relief Trust (CART) of the United Kingdom supported C4C with the items to assist people in dire need of basic life supporting items, ranging from clothing, books, uniform, sports items, toys and food trays as well as medical supplies and household items in the communities.
Miss Ruby Yap, the Executive Director of C4C, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said previously C4C carried out its activities only in the Wa Municipal, but decided to extend its operations to remote and hard to reach communities in Upper West and Upper East Regions.
She mentioned Sissala East, Daffiama-Bussie-Issa and Jirapa Districts with an estimated 882 persons in the Upper West Region benefiting from the support while 502 persons and health and educational institutions in the Builsa North and Builsa South in the Upper East Region also benefitted.
A total of eight institutions in all the beneficiary districts were served.
The supply also benefitted various individuals who were in dire need of wheelchairs, crutches and walking sticks while some school children who were identified as needy and walking over seven kilometers to school were provided with bicycles.
Miss Yap said adolescents with much emphasis on the girl child were given liquid soap for washing of hands and clothing and toys supplied to less endowed toddlers.
She said the partnership also supported women farmers dubbed ?Target 100 skills Training and Livestock Rearing in the Upper West Region? which 105 women living in households with 580 members from the Sissala East, Lambussie-Karni and Wa West Districts benefitted.
In Sissala East District, 30 women farmers and their 204 household members benefitted from the project to produce maize and soya beans, which were on high demand.
She said many rural women farmers were encouraged to take maize and soyabean production because of the high demand within and outside the region, especially in the lean season, whilst the soya bean was an ?upcoming? crop in the region which has potential in supplementing the nutritional and economic well-being of women and their households.
The project also provided soap making training at Olli in the Wa West District where 43 women farmers within the households of 209 members benefitted.
Miss Yap said 32 women farmers with 167 household members at Kongor in the Lambussie-Karni District also gained from the training.
About 172 and 167 balls of soaps were produced during the training in Olli and Knongor respectively and training materials and supplies were handed over to the women for their start-up production.
The project ensured the transfer of technologies; farming techniques and soap making procedures to the beneficiaries using a participatory and demonstrative approach; increased the acreage of land of the women beneficiaries; and introduced a new crop (soya beans) to most of the beneficiaries.
In addition, she said the yields of the maize and soya production is estimated to be enough to feed their households all year round while supporting their own sponsored cultivation next season.
?We thank CART for continuing to believe in us and our objectives; together with them and their supporters in the UK, we will be able to make a difference in the lives of the people especially the children whom the bulk of the materials benefit, their schools, needy communities and people,? Miss Yap said.
C4C is a non-governmental organization which aims at empowering communities through capacity building of community members to include but not limited to parent teachers associations and school management committees, women farmers and women farmer based organizations and the youth.
It champions quality basic education, promotion of gender equality and social inclusiveness, women empowerment, secure livelihood, youth development, nutrition and health in Ghana.
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