THE OMANHEN of the Abeadze Traditional Area, Daasebre Kwebu Ewusie has appealed to the government to help preserve and promote positive Ghanaian cultures.

According to him, recent developments indicate that many foreigners were trooping into the country to learn about the nation's rich cultures, and called on government to ensure that Ghanaians learnt their own culture very well.

He noted that if measures were not put in place for Ghanaians to learn their culture, a time would come when they would have to travel abroad to learn their own culture from foreigners, which might cost them huge sums of money.

Daasebre Ewusie said these at the 5th graduation ceremony of the African Footprint International, an NGO based in Cape Coast, over the weekend.

About eight students from the Royal Academy in Denmark graduated after a two-week training programme in local songs, drumming and dancing.

Daasebre Ewusie indicated that formerly, Cultural Studies was part of the school curriculum but it was removed with the introduction of the new educational reforms, and called for its re-introduction.

The chief executive of the NGO, Samuel Kweku Addison, expressed concern about the poverty tag on the region as the fifth poorest region in the country despite the abundant tourist attractions and challenged the youth to work hard to remove that tag.

He as well emphasised the need for government to help disabled people in the country since disability was not inability.

"My organisation has trained one deaf in drumming and dancing and that person is now a Culture teacher in Denmark," he said.
The Foundation was established in 2002 with the aim of helping the disadvantaged and physically challenged to bridge the gap between them and the rest of society.