Mr Bright Addai-Mununkum, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma (BAK), on Friday said the District Assembly had since 2001 given scholarships to 791 second-cycle students amounting to GH¢27,300.
He said the gesture forms part of efforts to make education accessible to the deprived, especially needy but brilliant students in the district.
The assembly, he stated also gave assistance in various forms to 80 students in tertiary institutions amounting to GH¢4,200, while 18 trainee nurses were supported at the cost of GH¢7,238.
Mr Addai-Mununkum was speaking at the second ordinary meeting of the first session of the assembly at Kokoado near Kuntanase in the Ashanti region.
On infrastructure, the DCE announced that the assembly for the past six years constructed a total of 22 three-unit and 10 unit classroom blocks, eight two-unit day-care centers and three four-unit teachers' quarters in the district.
Mr Addai-Mununkum entreated civil society organizations to be supportive of programmes and projects initiated by the assembly to boost the educational and human resource development in the area.
He emphasised that as key functionaries of the local government system, it behooved on assembly members to be dedicated to the development agenda of the assembly for the benefit of their electorates.
Source: GNA
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