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LaGray
Chemical Company Partners with Poverty
Reduction Foundation
(CSRwire)
NSAWAM, GHANA - Africa focused
pharmaceutical company, LaGray, today
announced a partnership with the Rural Women
Skills and Development Foundation (RWSDF) of
Ghana.
Speaking at the annual graduation and
fundraising event held at the foundation's
vocational training center, Dr. Paul Lartey,
CEO of LaGray, reiterated the importance of
African rural women skills development and
education to the alleviation of poverty on
the continent, adding "the objective to
empower women by imparting employable skills
to young ladies from deprived backgrounds is
one we must all support."
The company, according to Dr. Lartey, will
make its pharmaceutical production facility
available for the training of a selected
number of students from the center. He
further announced that, in addition to an
on-the-spot cash donation at the function,
LaGray will award annual scholarships to
support two students at the foundation's
vocational training center.
LaGray is building the first fully
vertically integrated pharmaceutical company
in West Africa, manufacturing both active
pharmaceutical ingredients and finished
dosage forms. The company, whose plant is
located at Nsawam, Ghana, is focused on
drugs for the treatment of malaria,
HIV-AIDS, hypertension, tuberculosis and
respiratory tract infections. LaGray is
scheduled to go into production in the first
quarter of 2007.
RWSDF is an NGO that provides training in
vocational and technical skills, to women
from the rural areas of Ghana. The NGO is
largely supported by the German church
organization Evangelischer Entwicklungdienst.
RWSDF graduates 35 women annually, armed
with marketable skills and entrepreneurial
training.
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