The chief and elders of Adumasa in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District, have installed Mrs. Rosemary Curtis, a British national as the Nkosuohemaa, Development Queen, of the Adumasa community.

Mrs. Curtis was installed under the stool name, Nana Akosua Sekyeiwaah Teituo.

The honour bestowed on her was in recognition and appreciation of the key role she played in bringing development to bear on the Adumasa community.

Through the initiative of Mrs. Curtis, the Ramseyer Presbytarian Church, Adum, Kumasi, entered into a Partnership with the All Saints Aid Kingsbridge school of England, Britain, under which funds were raised from abroad and channelled into supporting development projects at Adumasa.

Speaking at the installation ceremony at Adumasa at the weekend, Nana Kwaku Frimpong, chief of Adumasa, told Mrs. Curtis that now that she had been installed the Nkosuohemaa, it behoves on her to work in close collaboration with the other chiefs in the area to accelerate development of the community.

He stressed the need for Mrs. Curtis to design programmes that would help in the empowerment of women and also assist in the education of the girl-child.

Mrs. Curtis assured the chief and Adumasa community that she would work harder to justify the confidence reposed in her by the community by installing her as Nkosuohemaa.

Earlier, Prince N. Appiah-Fei, Co-ordinator of projects being executed under the Ramseyer Church and All Saints Kingsbridge School Partnership, said with the help of Mrs. Curtis, the Adumasa community have been provided with a number of educational infrastructure.

They include a three-classroom block, an office, a store and staff common room as well as a canteen block.

"About 300 school pupils are also now being provided one free meal a day, while a group of women in the township have also been assisted financially to undertake various economic ventures including kente weaving and beads manufacturing", he added.

In an address read for her, Mrs. Gladys Asamani, the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District Director of Education, appealed to the local communities to reciprocate the gesture of donors and the government in providing educational infrastructure by sending their children to school.

Bishop J.N.K. Boateng, a citizen of Adumasa and also the Founder of the Gospel Revival Church of Christ at Sofoline in Kumasi, entreated the affluent in society to consider channelling some of their resources into supporting community development initiatives as their contribution towards redeeming rural dwellers from poverty.