The Nkoranza District Assembly has taken delivery of four gari processing machines from the Ministry of Women Affairs for distribution to four women groups of 50 members each in five farming communities.

The beneficiary groups are at Dromankese, Yefri, Bonsu and Donkro-Nkwanta. Mr. Kwame Ampofo-Twumasi, District Chief Executive, said this when he addressed the second ordinary meeting of the first session of the Assembly at Nkoranza.

He explained that the supply of the processors formed part of the government's poverty reduction strategy programme aimed at assisting the women in the district to improve their socio-economic activities.

The DCE announced that each group would be given 25 million cedis as working capital for the production of gari and appealed to the women to work hard enough in appreciation of the government's gesture.

Mr. Ampofo-Twumasi said the Assembly would offer sponsorship to about 105 teacher trainees in the district so that they would return to support education in the district. A number of school blocks are also being constructed to solve the accommodation problem facing school children.

The DCE said the government had plans to supply about 7,400 dual desks to schools in the district in response to their furniture needs.