KPAR’GILANYILI COMMUNITY BENEFITS FROM TaTU AGRIC. OUTREACH INITIATIVE

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The Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Environment of Tamale Technical University(TaTU) has initiated a program of reaching out to Tamale Rural Communities in its operational area. The interest of the outreach is to identify deprived communities and initiate sustainable livelihood programs for targeted groups. The first community to benefit from this novelty is the Kpar’gilanyili women groups located within the Nanton District.
The maiden outreach event witnessed the donation of five newly customized TaTU Bee Hives presented to five(5) different women groups in the community. In presenting the Bee Hives on behalf of the outreach team, Prof. Marco Turco, the GiZ Development Officer in TaTU, appealed to the beneficiaries to take advantage of the outreach donation to create a sustained livelihood for themselves and their children. He hinted to them of other interventions if this program succeeds. Mrs. Gomda Ayisha, a lecturer at the Department of Sustainable Agriculture encouraged the women to be up and doing with this new project and work as a group and not be individualistic in their dealings in the bee project. The focal facilitator for the bee project, Mrs. Mary a lecturer in the same Department took the beneficiaries through the operations and management of the bee hives and promised to return with other persons who have the expertise to train them to commence the bee harvesting project.
The Director of Public Affairs representing the Vice Chancellor during the presentation praised the initiative of the faculty and assured the outreach team of the Vice Chancellor’s unflinching support for this program. He predicted that very soon the University would encourage other Faculties to emulate this initiative so that this program would benefit more communities in the Northern Region.
The Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Environmental is one of the newly established faculty in the University with most of the faculty newly recruited to support the strategic mission and vision of the UniversityTaTU.

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