GA EAST MOVES TO ESTABLISH SISTER-CITY RELATIONSHIP WITH LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA IN THE USA AS STUDENTS OF WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY CALL ON MCE; VISIT FREDERIKSGAVE FORT AT SESEMI

The Ga East Municipal Assembly (GEMA) has extended an arm of friendship to the City of Lexington in Virginia in the United States of America (USA) following a courtesy call on the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon. Elizabeth Kaakie Mann, by students from the Washington and Lee University.

The students, numbering 18, led by Dr. Stephanie Sanberg, an Assistant Professor of the School, who had been in the country a couple of weeks on an educational tour, called on the Hon. MCE at her office in Abokobi on Wednesday afternoon.

The team leader, Dr. Stephanie Sanberg, in a brief message informed the Hon. MCE, with the Municipal Coordinating Director (MCD), Mr. Emmanuel Kwame Kungi, and some Heads of Departments present, that their visit was primary to help the students acquaint themselves with the history of slavery in Ghana as it is an area of study in the Washington and Lee University.

The Dr Stephanie Sanberg, who first came to Ghana in 2009, indicated that her former school, Calvin College in Grand Rapids Michigan, had a relationship with Ga East Municipality through a Sister-City Relationship programme between the two, Ga East and Grand Rapids.

Through the Sister-City Relationship programme with Grand Rapids, Calvin College adopted Adenkrebi and offered various volunteer services whenever students from the school came to Ghana, including stocking of their library with books and other learning and teaching materials, teaching, and painting of the school buildings, among others, while staying in the community.

The Assistant Professor, however, indicated that the City of Lexington was opened to a Sister-City Relationship programme with the Ga East Municipality and promised to facilitate its realization.

On her part, Hon. Elizabeth Kaakie Mann, welcomed the students and their leader with great excitement to the Municipality, emphasized the importance of Sister-City Relationships and promised to ensure formalization of same with government own.