Fodome-Helu (V/R), Oct 13, GNA - Concerned Citizens of Fodome-Helu, a farming community in the Hohoe District, last Saturday donated 7 million cedis to the community as scholarship for 90 needy but brilliant pupils and students of the primary and junior secondary school.

The scholarship covered the 2003-2004 academic year.

Part of the amount is to be used for the provision of school uniforms and bags for the beneficiaries.

Mama Azinor V, Queenmother of the Fodome Traditional Area, and Co-ordinator of the scholarship scheme, announced the package at a ceremony in the town.

She said the scheme is to motivate and encourage the youth in the town to realise the importance and need for education in the modern world. "Our community is a deprived one, we have no natural resources to boast of, our only hope for the future is to educate our children to build a better Fodome," she said

Mamaga Azinor appealed to citizens of the three communities making up the Fodome Traditional Area and those living outside the country to contribute to the Education Fund to enable more children in the area to get better education.

She appealed to parents to teach their wards good morals and to counsel them on the dangers of casual sex resulting in teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS.

Mr James Dogbe, Hohoe District Chief Executive, praised the initiators of the scheme for their foresight.

He said the government is instituting measures to improve the standard of education in all parts of the country.

Mr Dogbe said the construction of several school blocks in rural communities in place of dilapidated ones is a testimony of what the government is doing to improve education in the rural communities.