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Regional News of Saturday, 12 May 2007

Source: GNA

Barclays support water supply to two institutions

Kumasi, May 12, GNA - A mechanized borehole project meant to provide potable and adequate water to the Kumasi Cheshire Home and Edwenase Rehabilitation and Vocational Centre was at the weekend inaugurated at a ceremony in Kumasi.

The two institutions had been hit by acute water shortage for the past ten years, necessitating the appeal to the Barclays Bank to come to their aid.

The bank, in response to this appeal, sought technical assistance from the Ghana Water Company Limited following feasibility studies into the viability of the project.

In a speech, Mrs Shola Safo-Duodu, Head of Corporate Affairs of the Barclays bank, said the project was funded by the bank at the cost of 108.6 million cedis and hoped that the facility would go a long way to address the water problem of the two institutions. She gave the assurance that the bank would continue to support the institutions in diverse ways to ensure that the in-mates were well catered for.

Mr Owusu Adjei, administrator of the Kumasi Cheshire Home, lauded the bank for living up to expectation and said the centre would take good care of the project.