WORK has begun on the construction of an orphanage and a community school complex for Gomoa Dabanyin in the Central Region.
The project, which is an initiative of the Future Hope for Africa, a United States of America (USA)-based humanitarian organisation, is expected to cost $375,000.
A parcel of land measuring 7.5 acres has already being released by the chiefs and people of the community as their contribution towards the project.
Speaking at a sod-cutting ceremony, the President of the organisation, Mr John Gillien, who is also the First Vice-President of the J.P. Morgan Chase Bank in the USA, said the project formed part of his outfit’s programme aimed at reducing poverty in selected African countries.
The project, which is expected to be completed within six months, would provide home to abandoned, orphaned and street children who had missed out of education owing to extreme poverty.
“It will also provide entrepreneurial training for school dropouts in the community of location,” he stated.
Mr Gillien said the project, which would be replicated in the Ashanti Region, as well as one of the three northern regions, would also provide job opportunities for the indigenes.
According to him, that would minimise the movement of people from the communities to the urban centres in search for non-existent jobs.
He charged people in the community to provide communal labour for the construction of the facilities, since they would benefit from them.
The Queen of the community, Nana Akua Amoh XII, commended the foundation for the initiative and pledged her support to ensure that the facility came to fruition.
She called on well-meaning Ghanaians to extend support to the community, which, according to her, had been living in abject poverty owing to the lack of social amenities.
The Future Hope for Africa, a subsidiary of the Hope for Africa, has over the years provided logistic support to selected African countries towards the improvement of education.
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