Anloga, Aug 8, GNA - Mr Raymond Okudzeto, President of the Volta Foundation, an NGO spearheading the development of the Volta Region, has appealed to wealthy citizens of Anlo to support the poor in order to reduce the increasing level of poverty in the area.

He said unless something was done to support the poor to undertake ventures that would turn around their situations, the poverty level in Anglo would escalate and endanger peace and security in the area. Mr Okudzeto, who is also a businessman made the appeal at Anloga on Thursday when he donated 10,000 Ghana cedis as seed money to support the youth in the area to undertake economic ventures.

Mr Okudzeto said many young people in the area had been unable to secure credit from the banks because of the conditions attached. "Today we have more mouths to feed and if we fail to create jobs for the teeming poor, starvation will become a reality," he cautioned. Mr Okudzeto, who early this year also supported the Keata Municipal Assembly to repair and install of streetlights, called for a development plan for people of Anlo in order to attract other philanthropies. He advised Anlos against allowing chieftaincy disputes and politics to overshadow the development of the area.

Mr Godwin Ahadzie, Manager of the Anlo Rural bank, the institution to manage the amount donated, urged the beneficiaries to pay back the loans. Dumega Kporvi, an elder commended Mr Okudzeto for the donation and urged other citizens of Anlo to emulate the gesture.