ABSTRACT
One of the truly impressive development schemes in recent times has been Ghana's Volta River Hydroelectric and Resettlement Project, about which much has already been written. As part of the 'transformation', and partly too because time was too short for a self-help resettlement programme to be carried out, each 'entitled' household head was provided with a new style of housing at one of these resettlement sites. The Volta Resettlement Authority, to its credit, accomplished a great deal and did so under enormous pressure. Parents at New Grube indicated that the experience of resettlement and rehousing had not affected the way in which they were rearing their children. Nchumuru traditional practice does provide a mechanism whereby overcrowding could be resolved in a particular elementary family, this being by the 'fostering out' of one or more of one's children.
