The Youth of Namolo, a suburb of Navrongo in the Kassena Nankana District of the Upper East Region have initiated a move, aimed at addressing the developmental problems in the community, through reducing poverty.
As a first step, they are coming together to contribute money to help the less privileged in the community to send their children to school, as well as helping members of the community to settle hospital bills and other pressing needs.
Mr Kaliza Kampe Kaba, chairman of the Namolo Youth Association (NYA), who disclosed this in Navrongo during an end of year Get-To-Gather said the move was to ensure that every child from the community was educated.
He said Namolo was one of the suburbs in Navrongo that had been neglected over the years, even though it housed all the government structures including the police station, the Ghana Education Service block and the judicial service, it was time the people themselves took the initiative to develop the area before the district assembly and central government assisted them.
He appealed to the MP for the area, Mr Joseph Kofi Adda to use his share of the MP's common fund and the government to assist in rehabilitating the only dam in the place to help small-scale farming and provide at least a borehole for the community.
Mr Caesar Abagali, the patron of the Association advised the youth not to introduce politics into their activities, since politics had the tendency of dividing them.
He, therefore, urged them to work in unity with a purpose, aimed at addressing the set goals to ensure that illiteracy was reduced from the community.
Mr Abagali said the Association was making efforts to build a community centre through communal labour, as well as buying a commercial vehicle to generate income for the Association.
The patron appealed to the entire youth of Namolo to join the Association and always respond to calls for communal labour, so as to benefit from the education component to enhance development in the area.
Mr Braimah Sanjage, Assemblyman for Namolo/Saboro Electoral Area, gave the assurance that he would use his influence at the District Assembly to solicit development projects and funds for the area.
Mr Sanjage, the Assemblyman and Mr Caesar Abagali, the patron of the Association pledged to contribute a 100 thousand cedis each from their monthly salaries, beginning from February to help promote education in the area.