The Livelihood Advisor of Plan Ghana, Mr Kofi Adade Debrah (left), presenting the four motorbikes, two computers, printers and accessories to Mr George Gyapong (right), the Programmes Manager of Rural Action for the Poor (RAP), a Hohoe-based non-governmental organisation (NGO).
RAP and another NGO, Facts for the Youth in Southern Organisation, based at Sogakofe in the South Tongu District, was another beneficiary of the donation. Both NGOs are engaged in micro finance services in the Volta Region.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Debrah said Plan Ghana’s objective in the region was to ensure that by the year 2011, 20 per cent of families would see marked improvement in their incomes.
He said under the micro-finance project, Plan Ghana would establish 40 village savings and loans associations with 1,000 members from 20 communities in the Hohoe Municipality and South Tongu District within the first year.
The micro-finance project aims at assisting people who do not have access to institutional financial activities to mobilise savings to improve the micro-enterprise.
The project, which would be implemented in the area for three years, will spend an estimated sum of GH¢100,000 during the first year.
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