The Volta Region is expected to plant an estimated 600,000 trees as the nation marks the second edition of the Government’s Green Ghana initiative. Launched last year to help replenish the nation’s vegetation cover, this targets the planting of 20 million trees this year, an estimated 500,000 of which would be in the Volta Region.The...
ActionAid, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). through its Young Urban Women Movement initiative has trained 26 young women in Ho on entrepreneurial empowerment and skills, in partnership with the National Board for Small-Scale Industries (NBSSI), which currently directs and implements the bulk of government’s skills empowerment, and micro industrial development initiatives. Beneficiaries received training in batik...
A new Magistrate Court building has been commissioned at Akatsi in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta Region to help bring justice to the doorstep of the people and for matters in controversy to be fully determined by the court. The new court building, which was commissioned in compliance with an approval from the...
Chief Director of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC), Mr Prosper Afenyo, has urged the media to remain as good partners in the country’s pursuit of child protection, stating that the role of the media in unearthing emerging child protection issues and abuses against children in society could not be underestimated, and that it was...
A donation of Ghc2,000 has been made to the Cardiothoracic Center at the Ho Teaching Hospital by the Ho Central market members. The Ho Central Market Queen, Madam Rejoice Novixoxo said they have identified the importance of the cardiovascular centre. “We the market women are prone to heart disease because we mostly sit at one...
Grounds have been broken to commence the construction of a multi-facilitated hospital for the Agortime Ziope District of the Volta Region as part of initiative to construct over 100 hospitals across the country. Local Government authorities led by Madam Emelia Emefa Adzimah, District Chief Executive, traditional leaders, and political party executives, joined the project consultants...
Star Assurance Company Limited has made a donation of GH¢20,000 to the ‘Hope for Little Lives’, a non-profit organization that provides medical screening, health education and pediatric surgical care to disadvantaged communities in Ghana. Speaking at a brief presentation ceremony, CEO of Star Assurance, Mrs. Boatemaa Barfour-Awuah said the company decided to support the ‘Hope...
The Rotary Club of Ho and Kumasi East have provided potable water to five deprived communities in the Akatsi South, South Tongu Districts and the Ketu North Municipalities of the Volta Region. The Club financed the construction of five water stations and a manual borehole to relieve the communities from relying on unwholesome water bodies....
The Methodist Church Ghana has initiated steps to establish a university campus in the Volta Region to increase access to higher education in the area. The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Most Reverend Dr Paul Kwabena Boafo, announced this in an interview on the sidelines at the official opening of the 25th Synod...