(Video) ACDA, UG School of Humanities benefit from IDB cultural grants

Sophie Makonnen (second from right), IDB Country Representative addressing reporters yesterday, while at extreme left is Executive Member of ACDA Eric Phillips and at far right is Michael Khan. (Photograph by Arian Browne)

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACCA) and the University of Guyana’s School of Education and Humanities Department of Language and the Cultural Studies have each been awarded US$5,000 by the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) 2012 Cultural Centre’s Cultural Development Programme.

According to IDB Country Representative Sophie Makonnen, the grants will go towards the support the development of the recipients’ cultural programmes.

Makonnen said yesterday that ACDA will be using its US$5,000 grant to fund a project titled ‘Drum Resistance’, the object of which is to facilitate the