Twenty disabled undergo training in grasscutter and snail rearing

Breman-Asikuma (C/R), Nov. 8, GNA - Twenty physically-challenged persons in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region have undergone a month-long training in grasscutter and snail rearing at Breman-Asikuma.

It was organized by the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) to make the beneficiaries economically self-supporting. The resource persons came from the Kwadaso Agricultural College in Kumasi, and Breman Asikuma office of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOA).

Addressing the closing session, Mr Sampson K. Anfako, Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Chief Executive, strongly counselled the participants to make good use of the knowledge and skills acquired at the course to improve their socio-economic well-being.

Mr Anfako said the government would do everything within its power to improve the intellectual, technical and vocational capabilities of the physically challenged to enable them to play their roles well in community and national development.

He assured that the district assembly would continue to provide the needed support to organizations wishing to organise such useful courses in the district to enhance the development of the people.

Mr Asiedu Onomah, Head of the Business Advisory Centre in the district, thanked the chief and elders of the town for helping the district with a piece of land for the participants to establish their grasscutters and snail rearing project as early as possible.

Mr Onomah also expressed appreciation to the district assembly for approving 10 million cedis for the project to take off without any delay.