On the month Of April, 17th, 2024, Atiwa East District Assembly led by the DCE, Honourable Kwabena Panin Nkansah engages the people of Nanapa located within Sekyere Area council. The purpose of the engagement was to bring out all issues relating to the community from the people, deliberate and to bring out the best possible solutions to these issues and other relational matters. The event was moderated by the director for NCCE in the person of Mr. Saviour Ametepe, and Mr. Prince Obeng Donkor the assistant information officer.The engagement witnesses the presence of Hon. Kwabena Panin Nkansah district chief executive, Mr. Shakil Kpedau Mahamood the district coordinating director, Miss Edith Gifty Teye the District Director for BAC(GEA), Miss Pearl Leonel Acquah the district director for Education, Mr. William Aseidu-Akrofi the district director for Agric, Miss. Effual Afful the district director for health, Mr. Joseph Agbeko Yadoglah the district director for chraj, Mr. Richard K. Bimpong the district director for Transport, Mr. Gabriel Boadi the district director for Community development and social welfare, Mrs. Latifa Issahaku the district director for Human Resource, the chief and queen mother, the elders and other community stakeholders.PRESENTATIONSThe event paved way for the director for NCCE in the person of Mr. Saviour Ametepe on behalf of the assembly to explicitly spelled out the reason for the engagement with the stakeholders of the community. He said, the entire assembly know your concerns and to deliberate on those issues, and to find out the best solution(s) to these issues. He added, all agencies and departments under the assembly are working on behalf and to the interest of the district assembly, and that, it will be the very best to bring them along with us to clarify the uncertainties happening within the community since this event will pave way for the community to have access to them directly.The district director for Agric had the opportunity to make a presentation to the stakeholder gathered at the event. One of the many things the director for Agric highlighted was Planting for Food and Jobs initiative which has been implemented and still ongoing across the country but this year 2024, the initiative has been slightly modified.The director expatiated the modification after he made a quick reminder of the phase one of the project. He said, the phase of the project has to do with the government subsidizing the cost production from farmers by 50%. The phase two of the project has to do with the involvement of an aggregator. The aggregator is a middle-man between the government and the farmer. The director vividly stated the core function of the aggregator which is supplying all what will be needed by the farmer to start farming at the cost of the government without anything being payable from the side of the farmer. For this is done after the farmer has registered and all relevant document(s) has been certified by the government via the agriculture department according to the terms and conditions of the project. The director added, the aggregator on behalf of the government will meet the farmer during the time of harvest and take back what was invested during farming season without any interest, and the remains back to the farmer. In speaking was the director for Community development and social welfare in the person of Mr. Gabriel Boadi, highlighting on the core function of the department which is enhancement of wealth and protection of every child in the country. He said, the department is under a journey of creating awareness of child abuse, child labor, teenage pregnancy which is significantly increasing, gender based violent, drug abuse and many more. He added, what is seen and reported to the department from communities is child labor. The director expatiated, children under the age of 18 years in accordance to the law and are exposed in hard labor by parent or anyone of that sort, having negative impart to the child health, education, anything of that sort, hindering the development of the child is called child labor. Activities parent subject children to must be educational wise since children normally learn effectively in physical activities. The department also focuses on people with disabilities (pwd’s). For such people the director said, are assisted with financial aid and any other from the assembly’s finance common funds but such people must be first registered. LEAP is also one of government initiatives to assist vulnerable needly elderly people from the ages of 65 and above, orphan children, and person with severely disabled. In speaking was the DCE, Hon Kwabena Panin Nkansah making a quick reminder of the hardship occurred since the year 2021 as regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, disrupting global food supplying chain across in the world market, significant decrease in world GDP and the world economy for which Ghana is not excluded. With regards to this, the DCE made a stand point and said that the world is facing crises now and that we should not always put blame on the government. The event witnessed the emphasis of National Identification Card from the DCE during his presentation and said that, the Ghana Card is now recognized almost all over the world, and is one of the well-recognized identity cards used almost everywhere in Ghana and within ecowas level. He edged the community to take the need to have a Ghana card. For first-timers is free but for replacement and other issues will be resolved under the terms and condition of National Identification Authority.The assembly is ever ready to give out scholarship to students in-need for assistance to further their education only when the conditions for qualification is met aside assisting the education directorate in so many ways. Miss Edith Gifty Teye the District Director for GEA, made highlighted on the Bizbox project currently ongoing across Ghana in every district prefinanced by mastercard foundation in collaboration with Ghana Enterprise Agency with the aim to serve people with the age range between 18 to 35 years as regards to agriculture businesses. USTAT was also highlighted by the director. He said, USTAT is similar to bizbox project but this time focusing on people in microbusinesses of any sort with the aim to reduce employment rate in the Ghana and of the world. OPEN FORUMBelow are some of the issues that arose during the event• The Age benchmark extended to 50 years instead of 35 for both the bizbox project and the USTAT project because agriculture is what most of the elders know what to do best. • Can the documentation of the scholarship be done including payment of school fees within the period interval as to when the school admits the child and point of starting lesson.• Extension of electrical poles and meters • Water bodies in the community being contaminated by mercury and cyanide chemical as a result of mining activities. • Is the phase two of the project politically base.Below are some responds addressing the arose issues• The terms and condition for the USTAT and bizbox project is from headquarters and there is nothing can be done about it. What can be done for now is to send a recommendation towards that to headquarters• The documentation of scholarship, including the payment of school fee with that period of time is feasible• Communication will be done with ECG pertaining to the extension of electrical poles.• Phase two of the planting for food and jobs initiative is not politically based• Initiative has been implemented to resolved the contamination of water bodies due the mining activities.The event started at 3pm and ended at 5 pm with a closing prayer with photoshoot.