NAYAGNIA HOLDS FOOD AND SEED FAIR (D/G July 3, 2008 PAGE 40)

Two non-governmental organisations — Action Aid Ghana and CARE International — with support from the Department for International Development in the UK, have presented food items and seeds to persons in flood-hit communities in the Kassena-Nankana District IN the Upper East Region to enable them to improve upon their livelihood.
Under a project code-named the Food Security and Agriculture Recovery Management II (FARM II), Care International is supplying millet, maize and cowpea freely to households in six districts in the three northern regions while Action Aid Ghana is doing same for four districts in the Upper East and Upper West regions.
A Programmes Manager of Action Aid Ghana, Madam Christiana Amarchey, who disclosed this to journalists at Nayagnia in the Kassena-Nankana District during a food and seed fair, said the project was targeted at solving the food insecurity situation in the aftermath of last year's devastating floods which claimed lives and properties, including the washing off of farmlands and farm produce.
She explained that it was also aimed at helping persons in the affected community to rebuild and regain their livelihood.
Madam Amarchey said beneficiaries were given vouchers to buy grains and certified seeds of their choice. The grains, she explained, was to sustain the families while the seeds were to be planted to provide security for the beneficiaries.
She expressed the hope that the beneficiaries would make good use of the offer being given them in order to achieve the goal for which it was instituted.
The District Chief Executive, Mr Emmanuel Chegeweh, commended the two NGOs for their gesture, stressing that it would go a long way to mitigate the looming hunger following the delay in rainfall.
He disclosed that as a result of last year's floods a total of 53,000 people were displaced, while 9,000 houses collapsed. He added that 98.1 km of roads, and seven dams were also destroyed.