Ayanfuri in the Central Region will soon have a $500,000 market, truck station, and convenience store thanks to the efforts of the Edikan Trust Fund and the Upper Denkyira West District Assembly.
The facilities will enhance the local population's overall economic and living circumstances when they are finished in six months.
As part of its social duty, Perseus Mining Limited, which conducts business in the Central and Western areas, established the Edikan Trust Fund to provide funding for initiatives in the communities where it conducts business.
In order to raise living conditions in the relevant areas, the fund is also intended to help eradicate poverty and promote health, education, and agriculture, among other things.
The project would give the locals a lifeline so they can pay their taxes, according to Ahunabobrim Prah Agyensaim, the Board Chairman of Perseus Mining Limited and the Paramount Chief of Owirenkyi Traditional Area.
Later, in order to improve cleanliness, he gave 100 trash cans to six communities: Abenabeana, Fobinso, Denkyira, Gyaman, Nkonya, and Ayanfuri.
Nana Agyensaim, a co-chair of the Green Ghana Project's fundraising committee, planted a tree and urged the populace to develop such habits to improve the environment.
Relief
According to Perseus Mining's Sustainability Director, Edwin Alotey Acquaye, the initiatives will offer some respite to the people of Ayanfuri and its surroundings.
He stated that the company will do all possible to improve the situation of those living in the catchment region.
Dr. Stephen Kofi Ndede, the company's general manager, stated that Perseus Mining was always willing to collaborate on such development initiatives with the neighbourhood district assembly.
Dr. Ndede, however, said that because of unlawful mining operations and other criminal difficulties that endangered their ability to conduct business as usual, the company overspent on security-related issues.
Such expenditures, according to him, might have gone toward community improvement initiatives for the company's operating locations.
Collaboration
Richmond Koduah, the Upper Denkyira West District Legislature's chief executive, expressed satisfaction with the partnership between the assembly and Perseus Mining.
He claimed that doing so would enable the assembly to carry out local development initiatives.
Therefore, he asked more businesses to join for increased collaboration.
Nana kofi Appiah, the chief of Ayanfuri, thanked the corporation for the initiatives and asked the public to support it in order to secure other development projects.