Africare Ghana, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has donated items worth 12,000 dollars to Wassa Amemfi District Health Directorate.
The items included one motorbike, 13 bicycles, weighing scales and treated mosquito bed nets.
The motorbikes are meant to enhance mobility in the implementation of a project dubbed Mass Partnership for African Cocoa Community of Tomorrow (iMPACT).
The project seeks to improve the livelihood of cocoa farmers by addressing the social, economic and environmental problems of cocoa communities.
The three-year project, which started in 2008, focuses on 11 communities in the Wassa Amemfi West District and is sponsored by MARS Incorporated in partnership with Africare.
Mr. Victor Kwasi Meisu, Wassa Amemfi District Chief Executive, commended Africare Ghana for projects it had initiated in the district.
He said the District Assembly was prepared to assist Africare in its endeavours.
Mr. Meisu appealed to NGOs working in the district to consult the assembly in the area of project allocation in order to avoid project duplication.
Dr. Kwasi Ampofo, Africare Ghana, country representative, said the organization, in partnership with MARS Incorporated, decided to plough back into cocoa farming areas some profits made out of using cocoa as raw material to manufacture cocoa products.
He said this is a pilot project being implemented in two districts in Ghana, namely, Wassa Amemfi West and Assin North and will later be replicated in other areas.
Dr. Ampofo said Africare, an African-American NGO which is working in 25 countries in Africa, was introduced in Ghana in 1989 and is working in many areas including health and HIV/AIDS, food security and agriculture and emergency response.
Receiving the items, Mr. Emmanuel Affelkum, Wassa District Director of Health Services, welcomed the IMPACT project and said it would help the staff of the directorate to reach and serve communities which are difficult to reach.