DAILY GRAPHIC, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Pg.28. Okaikoi North sub metro in perspective:Residents calls for improved sanitation at forum

Story: Mary Ankrah

LIVING in insanitary conditions is now an entrenched aspect of the daily lives of residents of Wouyema, a community close to Abeka in the Okaikoi sub metropolis.

For many years, improved sanitation has been a major challenge for the residents as vehicles belonging to waste management companies contracted to collect waste in the area are unable to operate due to inaccessibility.

This situation, according to some of the residents, has led to the littering of the streets and disposal of garbage in gutters and drains.

At a forum held in the sub-metro in Accra recently, the residents called on the directorate of the sub-metro to deal with the problem of waste disposal as a matter of urgency to forestall any health epidemic when the rains start.

A resident, Efua Amankwa, complained that when it rained, the refuse in the drains settled in the gutter right in front of her shop and she had to bear the stench that  emanated from the gutter too.  

The Presiding Judge of the Sanitation and Motor court at Abeka, His Lordship Emmanuel Antwi-Barima, indicated that the bye-laws of the AMA stipulated that every household should have sanitary facilities.

He explained that the Supreme Court of Ghana mandated the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to stop the use of pan latrines following a suit against the assembly for employing people to carry pan latrines in the capital. 

To enforce this mandate, Judge Antwi-Barima said the AMA established the Sanitation and Motor Court, which has the jurisdiction under the criminal code 1960, to try cases such as indiscriminate dumping of waste, causing noise pollution, obstruction of public way, slaughtering cows/animals elsewhere other than the approved places, selling unwholesome food or allowing cattle and other animals to go astray.

Similarly, the motor courts under road traffic Act 2004 act 683 tries cases on dangerous driving, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, among other cases, he said.

Judge Antwi-Barima said even though the AMA bye-laws demanded that landlords should make provision for household toilet facilities, the operations of the court in the  had assisted the authorities in the sub-metro to identify households without toilet facilities.

So far, he said, about 9,668 households without toilet facilities have been identified in the Okaikoi sub-metro.

According to the Director for the Okaikoi Sub-metro, Ms Abena Kwasiwa Kyei, the court recently identified a house in the sub-metro that accommodates 200 tenants but has no single toilet facility.

She disclosed that the tenants defecated in a drainage system behind the house, for which reason the landlord had refused to provide a toilet facility in the house.

To address the inadequate toilet facilities in the sub-metro, she said, the AMA was constructing public places of convenience to enhance sanitation while  encouraging landlords to construct household toilet facilities to reduce the pressure on the public toilets.

She said one public toilet facility had been completed at Alogoshie, while two others were under construction at Fadama and Anumle.

To deal with the situation of waste disposal, Ms Kyei said the sub-metro authorities claimed to have arranged with Yafuru Waste Company to engage in the house-to-house collection of refuse in the area.

According to her, the waste company has been implored to acquire the appropriate equipments that would enable it carry out its work effectively and efficiently in the area.

 Ms Kyei said the enormity of sanitary and road safety cases in the sub-metro called for the setting up of the Sanitation and Motor court for their prompt resolution.

She stated that the establishment of the court had significantly impacted on sanitation is some areas of the sub-metro.

On education, Ms Kyei stated that 37 temporal structures had been constructed to abolish the shift system within the sub-metro to enable the schools in the sub metro to have the full teaching and learning time to improve on the academic performance of the pupils.

She observed that due to large enrolment in public basic schools, classroom furniture was inadequate for the number of children in a class.

Ms Kyei added that under the initiative of the AMA, the sub-metro was also constructing a Millennium city school— a 12-unit classroom block which would include science and computer laboratories and library at Achimota Basic School at Anumle and Fadama cluster of schools while a sod had been cut to commence another one at Apenkwa.

She, however, complained about the use of most of the school parks for football activities by residents, especially the Tesano and Fadama cluster of schools, which she emphasised often affected classroom activities. 

On roads, Ms Kyei said that the AMA had rehabilitated about nine roads across the sub-metro at an estimate cost of GH¢ 474,855.

These include the Dzable street, Nii Boi Town road and others while the Akweteman and Korkor streets were still under construction.

In addition, about 1.5 kilometres drains and gutters are under construction at a cost GH¢ 328,581 at Nyamekye Obuobi Gonno and Abeka market, among other places.

 The AMA, she said, had further installed about 45 street lights in the six electoral areas in the sub-metro.
However, Ms Kyei complained that the chaotic situation on the N 1 highway was a major challenge facing the sub-metro.

Petty traders, she said, displayed their items along the pavements meant for pedestrians and even on the street, hindering proper accessibility of the pavement by pedestrians.

 “The indiscipline among petty traders and hawkers on the N 1 road, specifically the Abeka-Lapaz stretch of the road, is causing congestion at the area and despite several attempts to drive them away, the traders still come back with the excuse that they don’t have anywhere to sell.”

Ms Kyei acknowledged that notwithstanding the difficulties in the sub-metro, the AMA had supported and funded all the projects executed in the sub-metro.

“The AMA has also provided the sub-metro with equipment and motor bikes to make sanitation supervision easy while security personnel have been deployed to the place,” she added.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Pg.49. Ridge Church donates emergency equipments to Ridge Hospital

Story: Mary Ankrah

THE Accra Ridge Church has presented 22 pieces of emergency equipment to the Ridge Hospital in Accra.

The equipment, which included six sphygmomanometers, eight stethoscopes, six wheel chairs, and two patients’ trolleys, was to facilitate the work of medical officers to provide the appropriate care for patients in time of emergency.

The gesture is also aimed at improving the emergency ward of the hospital to render quality healthy care to the general public.

Making the presentation in Accra yesterday, the Accra Ridge Church Council Chairman, Capt Dick Gbesemete, said the equipment was to help the hospital to bring cure to the people and facilitate the work in the emergency ward.

He said it was the church’s responsibility to help hospitals to offer quality health care to the people and expressed the belief  that  would go a long way to improve the health service at Ridge Hospital.

Receiving the equipment on behalf of the hospital, the Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Obeng Apori, thanked the church for the benevolence and urged other organisations to emulate the kind deed by the church.

He also called on organisations and institutions to help the hospital with the construction of a new pavilion for the antenatal patients.

He explained that due to lack of space in the hospital the antenatal patients passed through the maternity  theatre corridor and it was unpleasant sight for them to see other pregnant women being sent to the theatre for operation.

Therefore, he said, it would be appropriate to move the antenatal patients from that corridor to a new pavilion where they would have antenatal, postnatal and emergency obstetrics and gynaecology unit.

DAILY GRAPHICH, Monday, March 26, 2012, Front Pg & Pg.3. Biometric registration: Hitches here and there

Story: Graphic Reporters 
      
THE national biometric voters registration exercise took off to a flying start on Saturday, despite some technical challenges which slowed down the process at some registration centres.

Malfunctioning printers and laptops and the inability of thumbprint machines to connect the computers were some of the challenges which confronted the exercise at some centres.

Ineffective communication of the schedules for the registration exercise added to the frustration of some applicants who visited registration centers which were not part of the first phase of the exercise, slated for March 24 to April 2.

The second phase is scheduled to take place from April 4 to 13, with the third phase starting from April 15 to 24, while the last phase begins from April 26 to May 5.

The technical hitches notwithstanding, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, was upbeat that the exercise would be conducted successfully, reports Donald Ato Dapatem.

In an interview with the Daily Graphic yesterday, he assured Ghanaians that the EC had enough experienced technicians to deal with any technical hiccups that would emerge at every registration centre.

He said two technicians had been deployed to each district, while there was a back-up team at the 10 regional offices and a team of experts at the national level to move to any registration centre to address the technical problems that might crop up.

 Dr Afari-Gyan said the EC was aware of most of the problems that might come up because they had been detected during the pilot registration exercise.

He added that the commission had enough back-up parts for all the kits, including extra kits in cases where the kits might not be operational.

On the large number of people who formed queues at registration centres on the first day of the exercise, he said it could be due to the fact that some applicants were not aware that the registration centres had been grouped into clusters of four.

He explained that a team would operate at a registration centre for a period of 10 days and move to another registration centre within the cluster for another 10 days. “It will spend 10 days at each registration centre until all registration centres in the electoral area are covered,” he added.

He noted that electoral areas that were large and had more polling stations would have two or more registration teams.

Commenting on the slow pace of registration at some centres, Dr Afari-Gyan said that it was not unusual, particularly in the initial days, and gave an assurance that the technicians would pick up the pace as the days went by.

Meanwhile, Mary Ankrah reports from the Race Course, near Sowutuom  in Accra, that the exercise, which was scheduled to start at 7 a.m., began between 8:30 and 10 a.m. at most of the registration centers within the area.

The late start was attributed to the late arrival of registration officers and technical problems.

At the Bethel Foundation centre, the exercise began as late as 10:30 a.m. because of the late arrival of registration officers, coupled with the inability of officers to activate the registration machine.

As of 1:30 p.m. only three people had had their data captured.

According to the registration officer in charge of the centre, Ms Mary Antwi, prospective applicants had to wait for about 45 minutes for a technician to fix the problem, but the machine kept going off and on.

She said it required a minimum of 10 to 15 minutes for an applicant to complete a process, noting that the process was slow because the speed at which the officers captured the data was not the best.

At the Holy Temple of Christ Church centre, although registration was smooth, the exercise came to a halt at 4:40 p.m. due to the breakdown of the machine.

Explaining the reason for the break down, the registration officer, Mr Peter Ewasi Fogoh, said the machine got frozen and the registration officers found it difficult to reach the technician to fix the problem.

Attempts by some unscrupulous people to jump the queue in the early hours of the exercise nearly marred the registration process at the Toll Booth centre, reports Naa Lamiley Bentil.

The melee resulted in about 12 registration forms getting spoilt.
According to the Assistant Registration Officer, Mr Marcus Nyarvie, in spite of the challenges, the centre registered 61 people.

Representatives of the two major political parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), were present to observe the exercise. Meanwhile, there were no security personnel.

At the end of the first day of registration at the Madina Social Welfare centre in Accra, the centre successfully registered 196 people, including one physically challenged person, Gloria Bamfo reports.

At the time Daily Graphic arrived at the centre at 2 p.m., 65 people had already been registered, with about 30 applicants of different ages waiting in a queue to be registered.

In an interview, the Assistant Registration Officer for the centre, Ms Margaret Amoafo, said patronage at the centre had been impressive.

One applicant, who only gave his name as George, expressed satisfaction with the peaceful nature of the exercise.

From  the Okai Koi North Constituency in Accra, Seth J. Bokpe reports that the exercise was fraught with technical challenges, identification problems and fisticuffs between supporters of the NDC and the NPP.

At the Achimota Primary School Centre, the official sent there to man the scanner did not turn up.
Calls to the district office for a replacement did not yield any result.

As of 3 p.m., 32 people had been registered, but they were without valid ID cards.

At the Forest Quarters Registration Centre, blows were exchanged between NDC and NPP supporters over who qualified to monitor the exercise, even though there were accredited party agents.

As of 2 p.m., 63 people had been registered before the scanners went off.

Although the atmosphere at the Alogboshie Cluster of Schools centre was largely peaceful, a number of first-time voters who turned up to register were sent home. As of 11 a.m., about 50 people had been registered.

Registration at some centres in the Trobu/Amasaman Constituency began successfully, except that applicants registered their frustration at the slow pace of the exercise, reports Sebastian Syme.

 As of 9:30 a.m., 20 people had registered at the Church in Accra polling Station at the Trobu Electoral Area.

The Assembly Member for the area, Mr Robert Oppong Boamah, told the Daily Graphic that the exercise had been smooth and called on residents who were yet to register to co-operate with the registration officials.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Friday, March 23, 2012, Pg. 16. Teacher calls for review of continuous assessment

Story: Mary Ankrah

A suggestion has been made to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to abolish the continuous assessment of junior high school pupils in the determination of their results of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

This is because some schools cook the figures in order to give advantage to their candidates.

The assessment is a permanent record of a child’s school performance from their first day of school, containing schools attended, address, the test scores as they progresses through school, teachers’ comments about their performance in the classroom, absenteeism and tardiness. Each year, more information is added to the records.

Mr William Amenyawu, a teacher, who made the suggestion in Accra yesterday, said the performance of the pupils should be based on their final examination performance.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, he said pupils who were given fictitious cumulative results were unable to perform well at the senior high school level.

He argued that the practice was prevalent because the GES did not have a strong system to monitor and check the assessments that were submitted by the schools.

This, he said, gave some of the schools the opportunity to cook results for their students in order to score higher marks, ostensibly to raise their image and attract more pupils to their schools.

Mr Amenyawu, who said he recently resigned from a school in the Central Region, accused the school authorities of constantly manufacturing cumulative results for their pupils.

He said on many occasions pupils who left one school for the other failed to take along their assessments and the authorities in their new schools rather manufactured fictitious ones for them instead of insisting on their previous records.
Mr Amenyawu indicated that some parents insisted on promoting their children even when the children had not reached their final stage to write the BECE.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Friday, March 23, 2012, Pg. 13. Nana Akufo-Addo takes campaign to Chorkor, James Town

Story: Mary Ankrah

THE flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday took his ‘‘Tour to restore hope’’ to fisher folks at Chorkor, where he assured them of his party’s commitment to their welfare.

He said a future NPP government would provide fishing facilities to support their activities.

Nana Akufo-Addo said such structures would serve as places where all the plans and actions of the fishing industry could take place to strengthen and develop the  industry.

The NPP flag bearer was emphatic that a future NPP government would reinforce landing sites and cold store facilities to improve the fishing industry, adding that his government would exclude politicians, district chief executives, ministers and political parties from the distribution and sale of outboard motors and premix fuel to fishing communities.

Rather, he said, those activities would be left in the hands of the fisher folks themselves.
“We are going to take politics out of the fishing industry and leave the industry to the fisher folks to make all the collective decisions for themselves,” he said.

He said the price of premix fuel had increased during the Mills administration, making it difficult for fishermen to ply their trade.

Nana Akufo-Addo used the occasion to introduce Ms Ursula Owusu as the parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma South and pleaded with the fisher folk to vote for her.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Monday, March 19, 2012, Pg. 20.Toyota Ghana launches anti-fake spare parts campaign

Story: Mary Ankrah & Jessica Acheampong

Totoya Ghana Limited has launched this year’s anti counterfeit campaign in a bid to  contribute to checking the influx of vehicle spare parts to the country.

The initiative  is expected to help e vehicle users to be fully mindful of the dangers involved in the use of fake car spare parts.

The anti-counterfeit campaign, which started in 2007, is to enable spare parts dealers and vehicle users to understand the need to use genuine car spare part to avoid most of the road accidents on the road.

The campaign is on the theme , “One little mistake, big trouble” is to create awareness about the dangers in using non-genuine spare parts for vehicles.

At the launching ceremony in Accra, the National Parts Manager of Toyota Ghana, Mr Wilfred Atuobi, explained that the materials used for the construction of counterfeits spare parts were mostly inferior and that resulted in the short lifespan of the parts and poor running of cars that use them.

Mr Atuobi indicated that although the product might look similar, the hidden internal component were totally ineffective and leads to high maintenance cost, frequent visit to the workshop, uncomfortable driving conditions and the safety and security of the passenger and vehicle was not guaranteed.

 “Genuine car spare parts prolong the durability of vehicles and enable drivers to save more money for future purposes”, he added.

He mentioned that some of the key spare parts which were imitated included bulb, clutch, wiper blades, oil filter, air filter, brake pad, among others.

He said Toyota Ghana was committed to educating customers on Toyota genuine parts because unauthorized manufacturers illegally produced parts using the Toyota logo and brand mark to mimic Toyota genuine parts and those counterfeits were sold at lower prices than the genuine ones.

According to Mr Atuobi, a survey conducted in the open market by the company in 2010 revealed that 80 per cent of spare parts dealers had counterfeit parts as part of their items.

The campaign was officially launched by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Toyota Ghana, Takahiko Takabayashi.

Substandard vehicular spare parts have flooded  the spare parts market in Ghana particularly Abossey Okai, the spare part dealership hub in the country.

The fake spare parts, experts  revealed, are normally  from Nigeria, China and  the United Arab Emirates.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Saturday, March 10, 2012, Pg.11. MOWAC, civil society organisation salute women

Story: Mary Ankrah

 The Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC) mark this year's International Women's Day  with theGreater Accra Region launch of the African Women’s Decade (AWD) at Amasaman in Accra.

The AWD which covers the period of 2010 to 2020 present a renewed opportunity to speed up international gendwe equality obligations in order to alleviate rural poverty among women and girls, and promote the realization and improvement of women’s participation to national development.

It is in consonance with Ghana’s commitment to the principles of international and regional instrument on the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

 It is intended to provide stakeholders the opportunity to partner with MOWAC to develop strategies to achieve the goals and objectives of the decade in Ghana.

The AWD is also to encourage the government to increase resource allocated to gender equality programmes to improve the status of Ghanaian women at all levels.
This year’s celebration which was under the theme: “Connecting girls, inspiring future; preventing rural poverty” was focused on the rural girl and woman.

Speaking at the occasion, the Greater Accra Regional Director of the Department of women of the  MOWAC, Ms Comfort Ablometi observed that poverty remains a massive and predominately a rural phenomenon in Africa with the most vulnerable people being women and girls.

She said this was because the rural women’s heavy work load on the farm and in the hosuehold limits their time and energy for other productive ventures yet they hold much knowledge needed to increase food security, prevent environmental degradation and maintain agricultural biodiversity.

Rural girls on the other hand she said suffer from gender-based discrimination. They face greater pressure than their urban peers, to adhere to traditional practices and customs and observed that early marriage and pregnancy limit their social networks and education, thereby putting them at the base of the academic ladder.

Ms Ablometi noted that if women are empowered to have legal rights to land and other property, access to market and financial services, Ghana would be amazed about women’s contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually.

In addition, the Regional Girl Education Officer of the Ghana Education Service, Mrs Gertrude Simpi-Amuzu maintained that to reduce poverty, education was essential for the girl child who through education would be able to read and write, contribute to discussions on development, control population growth by spending more time in school and take up high ranking jobs or become self-employed in various areas of the economy.

In order to reduce poverty, Mrs Simpi-Amuzu urged women to form groups to embark on economic ventures that could make them to be economically independent and this would promote the provision of the educational needs of their girls.

“Women should try as much as possible to cut down the cost of performance customary rites, especially, funeral rites, puberty rites and annual festivals. They should also minimise the purchase of personal item and channel the money on education of their children, particularly girls”.

According to Dr. Benard Coquelin, the UN representative in Ghana, rural women and girls make up one quarter of the global population yet they are held back to fulfil their potentials, and said if women had equal access to productive resources, agricultural yields would rise by four per cent, strengthening food and nutrition security and relieving as many as 150 million people from hunger.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Thursday, March 8, 2012, Pg. 19. Salvation Army launches 90th anniversary

Story: Mary Ankrah

THE Salvation Army Ghana Territory has launched activities to mark its 90th year anniversary slated for August 12.

The anniversary is under the theme: “fighting for right” and during the celebration, 30 new Salvation Army officers who are yet to complete a two-year training programme would be commissioned.

At the launch of the ceremony in Accra, a history book of the Salvation Army in Ghana titled “Riches for Christ” written by two officers of the Army, Colonel James Oduro and Colonel Samuel Baah was also launched to raise funds in preparation of the anniversary.

Salvation Army, a Christian denomination was founded in 1865 in London, England and is now present in124 countries around the world. It was commenced in Ghana in August 1922 by Lieutenant King Hudson when he was commissioned to 'open fire' in his home town at Agona Duakwa.

In addition, the church has 157 branches and 201 schools across the country, along with 11 health centres and four vocational training centres.

It had 23,148 junior and senior soldiers within the country who are commissioned officers.

Speaking at the launch, the General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev Dr Fred Deegbe, said the church remains the only hope for the world and recommended that Christians do all they could to bring hope and light to the communities they live and serve.

Dr Deegbe therefore urged the members to promote tolerance and peace among political parties in the coming general election and observed that as members of the church of God, it was the responsibility of the church to inculcate tolerance and brethren to live in harmony among themselves and all and sundry.

He also entreated the member to follow up in faith and should be guided by the scriptural quotation in Romans 4: 19, “And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb”.

For his part, the Territorial Commander of the Ghana Territory, Colonel Charles Swansbury said the church was proud of its establishment and records of achievement within Ghana and paid tribute to the pioneering officers and soldiers both local and expatriate for their contributions over the past 90 years.

He encouraged the members to strengthen the history made by their pioneers by steeping up to be more dedicated and hardworking in the service of God.

“But we do not rest on our laurels; we rejoice in the accomplishments of the past, we strive each day to serve God better and we trust in him for the Future” he added.

DAILY GRAPHIC, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Pg. 19. Ajumako Enyan-Essiam District discusses maternal, infant deaths

Mary Ankrah, Ajumako, Central Region

THE Chiefs and people of Ajumako Enyan-Essiam (AEED) District in the Central Region have held a one-day brainstorming session to deliberate on the high rate of maternal and infant deaths in the district.

The forum was organised by Hope For Future Generation (HFFG), an NGO that is partnering with Simavi of the Netherlands to improve access to basic health services in the district.

The AEED is known to have a high rate of child births, with adolescents comprising a significant number of the births.

According to the deputy Director of Nursing Services, Health Directorate in Ajumako, Ms Elizabeth Quaye, said out of the 3,975 antenatal registrants for 2011, 699 were adolescents.

Another worrying concern for Ms Quaye is that a large proportion of pregnant women still prefer to seek the services of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs), sometimes with disastrous results.

She explained that out of the total delivery of 2,502, recorded that same year, 243 were by TBAs and stressed that efforts were being made to reduce this through meetings with the TBAs and educating them on the need for every woman to have skilled delivery.

The HFFG initiative in the district is therefore a call for action to reduce maternal deaths through dialogue, advocacy and communal social mobilisation and to ensure commitment, societal change and increased resources in support of maternal health.

The project titled “Advocacy for allocation of resources to reduce maternal and child mortality” is a three-year project being implemented in 35 communities.

 Addressing participants at the brainstorming session, the Project Coordinator of HFFG, Mrs Cecilia Senoo, explained that the project had contributed to a four per cent reduction in child mortality in the area.

She was of the view that the situation regarding maternal, child and neonatal health in the area is still grave and must be tackled to save lives.

Mrs Senoo, therefore, made a passionate call on the government to resource NGOs and other stakeholders to advocate and educate women more on the issue, particularly those in the rural areas.

Other women, traditional rulers and the media, she emphasised, should also be resourced to join in the crusade to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.

“ Ghana should not continue to depend on international organisations to provide the resources to save our women. It is  time for a more concerted effort and greater action”, said Mrs Senoo.

“She said “for every Ghanaian, the death of a woman during birth must be considered a tragedy. Ghanaians should no longer afford to sit and watch women and children die from conditions which are preventable”.

Mrs Senoo was optimistic that HFFG would contribute to reduce maternal and child deaths in the district and ultimately make a positive impact on the country’s effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goal four and five, by year 2015.

 The Chief of Ajumako-Essaman area, Nana Amankwa XI, who participated in the meeting, said the HFFG project in the district had yielded positive results.

A typical example, he stated, was the growing awareness in the community on the importance of seeking skilled delivery during child birth.

Nana Amankwa said on few occasions, he had to personally intervened when some women who had gone to deliver with the TBA ended up with complications, and had to be quickly referred to a health facility.
Adwoa Nyamekye, a community member recounted the many maternal and child deaths in the community which could have been averted if they had the right knowledge.

 She noted that in recent times, the TBA made appropriate referrals of cases to the health facility and this had contributed to the reduction in maternal deaths.

Nyamekye pledged the community’s support to ensure that the  HFFG project was successfully implemented in the area.