Women urged to contribute their quota to development

Page 11 Saturday January 10 2009
THE President of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Ladies’ Club, Mrs Caroline Addy-Lamptey, has observed that Ghanaian women are endowed with immense knowledge and experience that could be tapped for national development.
She, therefore, advised them to work hard to deal with gender inequalities and discrimination and contribute effectively at all levels to build the nation.
Mrs Addy-Lamptey made this statement when members of the club visited the Tetteh Quarshie Millennium Farms at Mampong-Akuapem as part of their first anniversary celebration.
As part of the celebration, the group visited the farm to plant some cocoa seedlings to commemorate the occasion.
Mrs Addy-Lamptey, who used the occasion to enlighten women on issues that retard their progress, stressed the need for the government and civil society groups to continue with the implementation of programmes and projects to empower women to contribute their quota to development.
She stressed the importance of girl-child education and said it should be taken seriously because it was only through that, that women could acquire adequate knowledge to enable them to perform their expected roles.
She urged women in politics to be outspoken and fight for the rights of women, adding that, that was necessary to improve the status of women.
Members of the club paid tribute to the late Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, for planting a cocoa seedling on the farm, and for attaching importance to the country’s cocoa industry.
The caretaker of the Tetteh Quarshie Farm, the original farm on which Tetteh Quarshie planted the first cocoa seedling in Ghana, Mr Theophilus Obuobi, said the old farm should be maintained to befit the status of its name.
Some dignitaries who also visited the farm together with the ladies were the Warehouse and Ports Manager of COCOBOD, Mr Kwadwo Kissiedu-Kwapong, and the Tufuhene of Akuapem-Mampong, Opanyin Kwami Asumani.