Former Ambassadors' Wives raise funds for library project

Accra, Sept. 27, GNA - The Former Ambassadors' Wives Association (FAWA) on Friday organised a fund-raising musical concert in aid of a library project it is undertaking for deprived children in Accra. The classical music concert, which featured mostly former Ambassadors and Professors as artistes, attracted prominent people of various political persuasions.

Among the audience were Mr Kwesi Armah, Member of the Council of State, Mrs Esther Armah, President of FAWA and Mrs Alice Bossman, former President of FAWA.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, Ambassador Joseph Godson Amamoo said that monies raised from the concert would enable the Association to refurbish a building donated by the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Sheik I.C. Quaye for the project.

The artistes included Henry Sekyi, a former Ghana Ambassador to the United Nations and the United Kingdom; Professor Reginald Amonoo, Former Professor at the University of Ghana and University of Zimbabwe and Professor (Dr) Fred Eingmann, former Professor of Anatomy at the Ghana Medical School and Ms Mawulom Agor of the University of Ghana, Legon. They gave renditions of Felix Mendelssohn and Ludwig van Beethoven both German Composers and Frederic Francois Chopin, a Polish Composer in France after 1831.