....address needs of their people

Offinso (Ash), Dec 5, GNA – Dr Kusi Fourdjour, a United States (US)-based Ghanaian Medical Practitioner, has urged colleagues abroad to give the needed attention to issues concerning educational development in the country.

Education, he said, presented an opportunity for people to harness their talents, broaden their knowledge and also empower themselves.

He impressed on Ghanaians abroad to team up with traditional rulers to set up educational funds geared towards helping brilliant-but-needy pupils and students in pursuit of their educational careers.

Dr Fordjour, speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Amoawi in the Offinso Municipality on Sunday, said such an initiative was also essential to allowing for civil-society organizations to have the means through which they could support educational development at all levels and in diverse forms.

He is in the country to perform the official ceremony for work to commence on an ultra-modern library project for the Amoawi Methodist Basic School.

The about 500,000 US-dollar project is being funded by the Dr Yaw Safo Foundation, a benevolent organization.

The project would be equipped with internet service and other ICT facilities when completed to enhance on-line reading.

Dr Fordjour, an Executive Member, commended Dr Kwabena Owusu and Mr Moses Fordjour, for their vision in setting up the Foundation to promote educational development at the community level.

He also paid glowing tribute to the late Dr Yaw Safo for his philanthropic deeds.