Awutu-Bawjiase women get assistance under PSI on Cassava

Awutu-Bawjiase (C/R), July 14, GNA - Three hundred and thirty women in and around Awutu-Bawjiase have received financial assistance totalling 165 million cedis under the President's Special Initiative on Cassava to expand their farms.

The money was channelled through the Awutu-Bawjiase Rural Bank. Mr Emmanuel Osei, Chairman of the Board of Directors announced this at an emergency meeting with some board members and management staff of the bank at Awutu-Bawjiase on Monday after the last batch of beneficiaries had been paid their loans of 500,000 cedis each.

According to Mr Osei, the bank had initiated a number of supportive programmes to raise the socio-economic lives of the people in the area. He said the bank was also organising quarterly orientation courses for the staff to equip them with new banking techniques.

Mr Samuel K. Dodd, a member of the Board of Directors and National President of the Ayensu Starch Company Cassava Growers Association commended the women for their enthusiasm and commitment to the work and advised them to maintain the spirit to earn themselves more income and also to ensure the success of the company's objectives.

Mr Augustus Yankey, Manager, briefed the meeting on efforts the first batch of the loan recipients were making to repay them.

Mr K. Oppey-Abbey, also a board member stressed the need for the farmers to involve their teenage daughters, especially the jobless ones in the cassava project to enable them to earn a decent living.