Tuesday, July 18, 2006

New eCARE Entrepreneurs Prepare to Receive their eCARE Centres
The above picture shows part of the eCARE team and eCARE entrepreneurs that will be starting business in the next month (end of August/early Sept 2006). The entrepreneurs passed through a week-long training program and have paid seed money for the establishment of eCARE centres in rural and peri-urban communities in Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, and Northern regions of Ghana. eCARE will be hosting a launching of the new sites in a small village in Ghana's Brong Ahafo region, Adjaraja Beposo. The eCARE centre in this village will be fully powered by solar energy panels and the centre will be the only light in this remote village that does not have access to electricity. Mr. Anthony Osei Poku is the entrepreneur of the site in Adjaraja Beposo, Ghana. "My eCARE centre will be the only light in town - people will naturally gather at the eCARE centre." Mr. Osei has many plans for allowing the community to learn about computers at the centre. His centre will be serving a wide area that otherwise does not have easy access to computers and cheap telephony services. "Community members will be able to access pricing information of yams in Kokomba Yam Market and in Accra which will improve their business - yams are a major business in this area." On 24 August 2006 eCARE's project partners, local community leaders, Ghana Telecom management, eCARE entrepreneurs, and community members will gather together in Adjaraja Beposo to celebrate the commissioning of more eCARE centres.

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