Ohawu Agriculture College gets furniture support

Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL), a non-banking financial Institution, has donated 100 pieces of mono desks to Ohawu Agriculture College in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region.The gesture, the donors said, was to enhance teaching and learning at the College.Mr Samuel Yeboah, the Chief Operations Officer of GIRSAL, in an interaction with the Ghana News Agency, disclosed that other objectives of the donation were to provide a comfortable environment that would curb teaching and learning challenges among students and tutors.He commended the School's Management team for the constant professional training provided over the years that had contributed to the success of the college since its establishment in 1964.'Gone were the days when agriculture was about hoes and cutlasses, but now technology has modernised it and the people can now bridge the gap and do more work to produce goods in abundance,' he stated.Mr Yeboah urged other corporate organisati ons to contribute towards helping the College in order to produce professional graduates in Agribusiness for a sustainable agricultural system.He stated that the group's aim was also to provide credit guarantees and technical support to financial institutions and agribusinesses through well-structured transactions to increase Agriculture lending.Mr Ernest Mawufemor Kwesi Abiew, the Principal of the College, who received the items on behalf of the school, expressed gratitude for the gesture.'This donation has come at the right time. Today is a significant day for our college and we are sincerely grateful for this support,' he said.He said education with a conducive environment was essential to nurture the bright mind that would lead the agricultural sector.He said the donation by GIRSAL formed part of their fifth anniversary which was celebrated on the theme: 'Cultivating Growth: Five Years of Empowering Ghana's Agriculture Through Innovative Finance and Technical Support'.Source: Ghana News Agenc y