By Dorothy Frances Ward, GNA
Atwima (Ash) April 24, GNA – The German Parliament has approved a Sister-community relationship between the city of Murnau in Germany and Atwima in the Kwadaso Municipality.
The aim is to strengthen partnership between the two communities to promote development, especially in the areas of agriculture, education, tradition and culture, health as well as business.
Nana Antwi Agyei Brempong II, the Atwimahene, who made this known to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Kumasi, said the partnership was achieved through the initiative of Mr. Albert Osei-Wusu, a native of Denkyemuoso in Atwima, domiciled in Germany.
It was also made possible through the instrumentality of Nana Akua Kyere, the Nkosuohemaa of Atwima and her husband, Mr Florian Wolfart, Ghana’s Honorary Consul in Germany.
He said the Nkosuohemaa had already established a library at the Ghanaian-German School at Denkyemuoso, which she had already stocked with books and other reading materials, to help inculcate the reading culture among the children, at the very tender ages.
She had also visited the community recently to motivate the young children to improve their reading skills, which would enhance their assertiveness and self-confident.
Nana Brempong said a 14-member delegation from Murnau recently visited Atwima, to deepen social and cultural ties between the two sister-communities.
He said Mrs. Barbara Krönner, Chief Executive of “Barbara Krönner Schocoladen Manufactur” a Chocolate Manufacturing Company in Germany, who was part of the delegation, had also pledged to give training and support to cocoa farmers on the use and application of organic fertilizers in cocoa production in Ghana.
The Atwimahene said a four-member team from his traditional council and the Kwadaso Municipal Assembly, are already attending a nine-day workshop on climate change and sustainable environment in Germany, under the partnership.
He added that he would also lead a delegation in July this year from Atwima to Murnau for the inauguration of the Atwima-Murnau sister-community partnership.
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