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BG International (BGI), a US-based real estate development firm with an office in Ghana, has donated $10,000 towards a street-lighting project for the Gbawe community, a suburb of Accra.The donation was made at a durbar held to climax the celebration of the Homowo festival in Gbawe recently.
Mr. Irwin Barkan, Chief Executive Officer of BGI, said the donation was to restart the street-lighting project which began some years ago but was never completed. He promised to provide additional funding for the project “until all the 130 light poles are shining bright at night on the 14 streets and roadways identified in the community.”
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