Library complex for Winneba

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22-08-08

A ONE-STOREY community library complex estimated at GH¢100,000 is being constructed at Winneba in the Central Region.
The project will comprise a computer room with internet facility, a religious section and an area for children, among other things. The facility is at the foundation stage and is being undertaken through a self-help initiative.
According to the Omanhen of the Effutu Traditional Area, Nenyi Ghartey VII, the facility was being constructed to meet the growing number of students in the area and to provide a fitting place through which they could study after school.
He told the Daily Graphic at a ceremony during which Winneba citizens in Italy presented 100 bags of cement to support the construction of the library project, that the early completion of the library would depend on the availability of funds.
Nenyi Ghartey, therefore, appealed to Winneba citizens home and abroad, philanthropists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to support the project to help improve the standard of education in the area, adding that “we are thinking of putting up a meeting room so that the youth associations can use it as a meeting place”.
Currently, he said, youth groups met under sheds and sometimes at drinking spots.
He said the establishment of a community library was mooted by Mrs Comfort Boison, a lecturer at the University of Education, adding that the chiefs also embraced the idea and prepared the plan to that effect.
“A church that was visiting Winneba from the US, the Baptist Tabernacle Church, accepted to support the project,” he said.
The Winneba branch of the Word Miracle Church International (WMCI) is the local partner to the project.
The representatives of the Winneba Citizens in Italy, Mr Prince Entsiwah and Ms Agnes Appiah, indicated that the support was part of their contribution to raise the standard of education in the area.
The town, apart from the university, currently boasts four senior high schools and about 30 public and private basic schools in addition to vocational schools.