The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Youth Authority (NYA) has reconstructed a dilapidated six-unit classroom pavilion to improve education in the area.

The construction was done by some 30 youth volunteers organised and camped at Akoefe Avenui in the Ho municipality by the NYA.

The young volunteers, mostly made up of men, were drawn from each district in the Volta and Oti regions and were camped for two weeks in the community for the project. 

Speaking at a short ceremony held to hand over the facility to the community, the Volta Regional Director of the NYA, Mr Yao Semorde, who championed the intervention, said the NYA is meant to serve the young ones and provide opportunities for them to realise their potential through seminars, camps, workshops, education and others means while helping the vulnerable in the communities. 

He revealed that a similar project was initiated in the past in the Ho municipality and they are looking forward to extending the initiative to other places which are in dire need of infrastructure.

He encouraged the youth to participate in voluntary activities for the development of their societies and for Ghana as a whole.

The Director called for the need to revive the spirit of communal labour and voluntarism in communities, institutions and groups to pave the way for development. 

The Ho Municipal Director of the NYA, Mr Charles Gomenu, praised the youth for devoting their time and energy to the realisation of the project.

He mentioned that similar development initiatives will be seen in the future through voluntarism.

He called on the communities that will benefit from such interventions to embrace the volunteers as well as the NYA to encourage development.

The chiefs and opinion leaders who were at the ceremony stated that the Municipal Assembly School was the first basic school brought to the community and most of them had their elementary education there.

The Fiator of the community, Togbe Ametefe, was grateful for the intervention and showered blessings on the NYA. 

The beneficiary community, Akoefe Tokor is a small farming community isolated from the Ho.