The Duke Williams Foundation for hope and charity, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has embarked on a programme aimed at creating awareness on the pursuit of education for the people of Nkatsim, a farming community near Mankessim in the Ajumako Enyam-Esiam District of the Central Region. Playing brass band music through the principal streets of the town, the NGO was able to sensitize parents on the need to send their children to school, especially the girl-child. Addressing the gathering later, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NGO, Mr Duke Williams reminded the community of the important role education played in the development of any society. He said the NGO was therefore poised to invest in the education of children so that they could grow to shape the destiny of the town. Mr Williams said that education was the only way to liberate the people from superstitious beliefs and all forms of practices that retard progress. He pledged that as part of its corporate social responsibility, the NGO would put up an ultra-modern school complex for the community by December this year. The US Country Director of the Foundation, Madam Maggie Smallwood said the NGO had assessed the needs of the community in the areas of education and health and would do all it can to address them. She commended government for the extension of electricity to the community and appealed to the ECG to fast-track the connection of the town to the national electricity grid. Madam Smallwood also urged government to put the six-and-a-half-kilometre feeder road from Badu-Krom to Nkatsim in good shape to facilitate the movement of goods and services in the area. Source: GNA