Hodzo (V/R), March. 27, GNA- Caltech Ventures Limited, an Agro based Company on Thursday, commissioned an Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre worth over GHCc13,000 for the Hodzo area schools in the Ho Municipal area.

The centre would be used by Junior High Schools at Hodzo, Takla, Kpenoe, Aviefe and Alavanyo, all farming communities. Caltech Ventures has a cassava plantation at Hodzo, where it intends to produce a non-fuel ethanol for the local and international markets.

Dr. Papa Kow Bartels, Agronomy Specialist of Caltech, who made the presentation, said the gesture was part of the Company's social responsibilities, aimed at linking the communities to the rest of the world.

He said more computers with Internet facilities would be provided at the centre to enhance the socio-economic development of the communities.

Dr. Bartels said the idea was to produce computer literates in the communities and also to be able to work with Company's state of the art ethanol plant based at Hodzo and hoped students in the beneficiary communities would take advantage of the initiative. He called on the teachers to allow the students to "explore the machine and also to handle it with care".

Mr Yao Siedu, Assistant Director of Education in Charge of Supervision of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Ho Municipality expressed his gratitude to Caltech for the facility and the foresight. He said the Centre would be crucial to the implementation of the new educational reforms in the area for which reason the communities should regard the facility as a blessing. Mr Siedu pledged the preparedness of the GES to help maintain the Centre and appealed to other non-governmental organizations to help other communities with such initiatives.