Daily Graphic, Pg 11. Sat. March 20/10
Story Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho
THE Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu, has commended the Ghana International Women’s Club (GIWC) for helping to better the lives of a number of less privileged women in the country.
Speaking at a fund raising and tea party organised by the group in Accra for its members, the minister lauded the club for undertaking various projects in parts of the country to make life more meaningful for women and children.
She called on other women groups in the country to help deprived women progress in live.
She said the government was trying to accelerate development in the three northern regions, and called on private individuals to channel their projects to that part of the country to benefit more women and children.
The President of the club, Mrs Nagwa Katta, said the club had funded over three hundred projects in parts of the country, adding that it was aiming at undertaking more development projects that would better the lives of more women in the country.
She said after 30 years of service in the country, the club, which was made up of women from different nations residing in Ghana, would continue to initiate projects in deprived communities in the country, and called for more support to enable the club to attain its objectives.
The Project Chairperson of the GIWC, Mrs Florence Frimpong, mentioned the Autism Centre in Accra, the Orthopaedic Centre at Nsawam, the Breeches Day Care Centre, the Accra Psychiatric Hospital and the Okuapeman School, as some of the places where the club’s projects are located. She also said others were the Dzorwulu Special School, the Osu Library, the Sesami Women’s Group in the Brong Ahafo Region and a farming project for the Navrongo Women’s Group.
She said in 2008, the club raised $30,000 to fund over 170 cataract operations for some less deprived people.
Currently she said the club was aiming at providing beds for the Obstetric Unit of the Ridge Hospital.
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