Koforidua, Dec. 25, GNA - A new transportation system has been

launched in the Koforidua Municipality to provide free transport

services to school children.

The system, to use a tricycle to transport the children mostly

staying in communities outside the urban areas of the Municipality to

school, would be provided by Voltic Water Company, producers of

Voltic Mineral Water and Instinct Media Limited, an advertising

company. Launching the project, Mr Majeed Ayariga, Deputy Coordinating

Director of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly, explained that the

new school transport services would help to reduce absenteeism

from school to the barest minimum in the beneficiary communities. He commended the two organisations for their commitment and

assured that the New Juaben Municipal Assembly would partner them

to ensure that the project achieve its objective.

The Managing Director of Voltic Ghana Limited, Mr D.K

Deshmakar, said the company opened a depot recently in Koforidua

Municipality and through interactions with the people he got to know

that children from the surrounding communities were not regular at

school due to transportation problem. He said it was against that background that the company

decided to partner Instinct Media Ghana Limited to sponsor the

implementation of the project that involves ten specially designed

Trikademik tricycles, which were to be used to transport the school

children to and from school.

Mr Deshmakar announced that, a total of 55 school

children between the ages of four and 11 years would benefit from

the project 96 the schools include Babs International School at

Magazine, Presbyterian Basic Schools, Nana Kwaku Boateng Basic

Schools, Mossama Preparatory School, Rock of Ages School and

Assemblies of God School, all in Koforidua. The rest include Roman Catholic School complex,

Kyeremanteng Basic School, Good Shepherd School all of

Koforidua-Ada and Roman Catholic Primary School at Effiduase. He explained that, the project would help to improve

incomes of parents and guardians of the school children. Mr Deshmakar said the project had provided jobs for 15

riders, 2 bicycle mechanics and additional 15 artisans all from the

communities.