Adumasa (Ashanti
Region) 31 March 2003- The chief and elders of Adumasa in the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma
District, have installed Mrs. Rosemary Curtis, a British national as the
Nkosuohemaa, Development Queen, of the Adumasa community.
Mrs. Curtis was
installed under the stool name, Nana Akosua Sekyeiwaah Teituo. The honour
bestowed on her was in recognition and appreciation of the key role she played
in bringing development to bear on the Adumasa community.
Through the
initiative of Mrs. Curtis, the Ramseyer Presbytarian Church, Adum, Kumasi,
entered into a Partnership with the All Saints Aid Kingsbridge school of
England, Britain, under which funds were raised from abroad and channelled into
supporting development projects at Adumasa.
Speaking at the
installation ceremony at Adumasa at the weekend, Nana Kwaku Frimpong, chief of
Adumasa, told Mrs. Curtis that now that she had been installed the Nkosuohemaa,
it behoves on her to work in close collaboration with the other chiefs in the
area to accelerate development of the community.
He stressed the need
for Mrs. Curtis to design programmes that would help in the empowerment of
women and also assist in the education of the girl-child. Mrs. Curtis assured
the chief and Adumasa community that she would work harder to justify the
confidence reposed in her by the community by installing her as Nkosuohemaa.
Earlier, Prince N.
Appiah-Fei, Co-ordinator of projects being executed under the Ramseyer Church and
All Saints Kingsbridge School Partnership, said with the help of Mrs. Curtis,
the Adumasa community have been provided with a number of educational
infrastructure.
They include a
three-classroom block, an office, a store and staff common room as well as a
canteen block. "About 300 school pupils are also now being provided one
free meal a day, while a group of women in the township have also been assisted
financially to undertake various economic ventures including kente weaving and
beads manufacturing", he added.
In an address read
for her, Mrs. Gladys Asamani, the Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District Director of
Education, appealed to the local communities to reciprocate the gesture of
donors and the government in providing educational infrastructure by sending
their children to school.
Bishop J.N.K.
Boateng, a citizen of Adumasa and also the Founder of the Gospel Revival Church
of Christ at Sofoline in Kumasi, entreated the affluent in society to consider
channelling some of their resources into supporting community development
initiatives as their contribution towards redeeming rural dwellers from
poverty.
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