Danida provides 3 million dollars to support GDCP

Dalun (Northern Region) 27 July '99

The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) has made available three million dollars for the provision of basic infrastructure and capacity building in the Tolon/Kumbungu and Savelugu Nanton districts in the next six years under the Phase Five of the project.

Phase four, which lasted four years, involved the provision of a number of schools and other basic infrastructure for communities in the Tolon/Kumbungu district and loans to income-generating groups, as well as the training of 4,753 people in various vocational skills.

The donation was announced by Dr Abubakar Al-Hassan, chairman of the Ghanaian-Danish Community Project (GDCP), which received the money, at its annual general meeting at Dalun in the Tolon/Kumbungu district to review its activities.

Dr Al-Hassan said the royal Danish embassy in Ghana is sponsoring the GDCP to undertake a study of the reception of Radio Savanna, Tamale FM station, in the eastern part of the region with the hope to assist it with boosters to cover the whole area.

Radio Savanna broadcasts are heard within only 90 kilometres radius of Tamale, representing only a third of the region.

Radio Savanna broadcasts in English and two dominant local languages, Dagbani and Gonja. There are more than 16 other languages in the region.

Dr Al-Hassan said the GDCP has been allocated a frequency and will soon broadcast its own programmes from Dalun to its target audience. It will also link up with Savanna to broadcast programmes from Dalun, using RTS transmitters.