As part of the significant occasion organised to hand-over sub-projects implemented under the 3rd Cycle of the Boosting Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities in Ghana (GrEEn) Project in the ten (10) beneficiary Municipal and District Assemblies (M/DAs), as well as the graduation of Cash for Work (CfW) beneficiaries who have successfully completed the Employability Life Skills Programme under the leadership of the SoS Children’s Villages (SoS), the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD) has handed over to Axim in the Nzema East Municipality, a U-Storm Drain.
The newly constructed U-Storm Drain which was constructed with a funding amount of Three Hundred and Fifteen Thousand, Eight Hundred and Eighty Ghana Cedis (GH₡315,880.00), is 200-Meter-Long, 2.2-Meter-Wide and 09-Meter-High (200mx2.2mx0.9m), with 5no Step and Slap Size 2.2meters long, 1.8 meters wide and 0.15meters thick.
Under the Cash for Work (CfW) component, a total of One Hundred and Six (106) community members benefited from, consisting of Fifteen (15) males and Eighty-Nine (89) females.
The Nzema East Municipal Assembly has also benefited from two (2) other cycles of the GrEEn Project, with the initial cycle resulting in Construction of 3No. 1.2m diameter, 8m wide Pipe Culverts (Material) in Gwira Ampansei. This intervention was carried out with a funding amount of Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Thousand, One Hundred and Fifty-Nine (GH₡369,159.00) Ghana Cedis under the GrEEn Project for the years 2022-2023.
The GrEEn initiative focuses on the implementation of climate-resilient infrastructures and investment projects in local communities, including improving water supply through provision of boreholes, constructing footbridges and culverts, setting up greenhouse nets, conducting awareness campaigns to educate the local communities, particularly women and farmers and enhancing their ability to withstand the impacts of climate change and various crises. It is funded by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) .
Source: Sandra Owusu Asamoah
(Public Relations Unit, MLGDRD)