From Isaac Akwetey-Okunor
In the quest by the youth of the Krobo area to ensure development in the land of their birth, Kloma Hengme, a non profiting association, has embarked on a community service with free health screening and distribution of educational materials. The community service was borne out of a programme dubbed “Kloma Hengme Rural Watch Project” to enable it pay more attention to neglected rural communities in the Krobo area.
The programme which took place on Sunday May 24, 2015, with a team of Krobo doctors, nurses, bankers and other professionals storming Aketebuor, a village near Otrokper, in the Upper Manya-Krobo District. Under the project, one rural area in each of the three Krobo municipalities and district – that is Upper Manya-Krobo, Yilo-Krobo and Lower Manya-Krobo – would be chosen for this pro-poor rural developmental project.
The doctors, nurses and other medical staffs would engage in rigorous health screening exercises on a number of diseases, including malaria, Blood Sugar, Blood Pressure, Hepatitis B, and other mobile ultra-sound services, including prostate, breast and kidney diagnosis.
With the bankers and other financial staff educating the rural dwellers on the need to save, invest, as well as introducing them to other alternative livelihood options, the other professionals, including teachers on the other hand, educate the community and pupils on the value of education, and the need to make the education of their children a priority.
Disclosing this to the Eastern File, the Chairman of the Kloma Hengme Association, Mr. Isaac Tamatey Out, said the Association, for a start, had considered Aketebuor, a village near Otrokper in the Upper Manya-Krobo District. “Blukum, another village in Yilo-Krobo, and one other village in Lower Manya-Krobo, are other villages that would benefit from the project,” he asserted.
The Chairman continued that many of the rural areas that form the bread basket of Krobo land have been neglected for far too long, which has been a matter of worry to the Association, and, therefore, the project. “We, as Krobo people, have all it takes to develop our own land, and we must all rise up to our feet now, for no one will come and do it for us,” he added.
The visit is part of the association grand rural support project instituted some few weeks ago, and would also be used to distribute some text and exercise books and other educational materials to the pupils in the community, to encourage them to take their education more seriously.
Again, the state of their social amenities in the villages, including the road networks, classroom blocks and furniture, sources of drinking water and other physical infrastructure, would be examined thoroughly by the association, and the necessary actions taken on them. The association is also taking along clothes (both new and slightly used) to be distributed to the rural dwellers.
