Ankaase (Ash), Aug. 19, GNA – An American volunteer group from the Lansing Community Medical College in Michigan in the United States of America has donated 12 laptop computers to a people of Ankaase, a farming community in the Kwabre District of Ashanti. The group made up of professors, lecturers and students, has as part of an eight-day visit to the community, paid the health insurance premiums of 36.9 million cedis covering 286 people.
Making the presentation at a ceremony at Ankaase, Professor Leslie Hoover, leader of the group, said the computers formed part of an 185 million-cedi assistance package for the community and that 10 of the computers is for the community library, one for the Methodist Hospital and the remaining for Christ Ambassadors, a youth group in the town. The volunteer group also donated a quantity of jerseys and other sports equipment to the three basic schools in the community. Alhaji Akwasi Yeboah, District Chief Executive for Kwabre, who received the items, commended the group for the gesture, which he said came at the right time, when the community library project was nearing completion. The DCE pledged to assist in the completion of the library project and called on the people to send their children to school to enable them benefit from the government’s fee-free education. 19 Aug. 06
