Janfodo (N/R), May 30, GNA – A sod has been cut to drill 50 boreholes in seven Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) along the country’s Eastern Corridor area to arrest the perennial water crisis in communities there.
The beneficiary MDAs would include Yendi, Nanumba North, Nkwanta North, Nanumba South, Zabzugu, Tarale/Sanguli, and Saboba.
The project, estimated to cost $300,000.00, would be undertaken by the Rural Water Development Programme Ghana, of Church of Christ in partnership with Ghana West Africa Mission and Healing Hands International of Alabama, United States and Nashville Tennessee USA.
Mr Nathaniel Adams Jnr, Chief Executive Officer of Rural Water Development Programme Ghana, of Church of Christ, said some of the boreholes would be fitted with hand pumps and others with mechanised water systems.
Mr Adams said some of the boreholes had been completed, adding that the rest would be ready by November this year to serve the people.
Madam Gillian Kelley, Water Project Coordinator of Healing Hands International, Nashville Tennessee USA, was happy that the partnership would ensure clean water for people in the communities.
Mr Ricky McWhorter, Executive Director, Ghana West Africa Mission, Alabama USA, said it was a tremendous feeling to start the project to address a major need of the people.
Chief of Janfodo, Obor Nsuribe Koyaja, expressed gratitude to the partners for coming to the aid of his community with the water project.
He said their water source, which was the Oti River, always dried up during the dry season forcing them to walk long distances for water, which was not clean.
In a related development, one of the 50 boreholes, which was completed, has been handed over to the people of Oyodom community in the Nanumba North Municipal Assembly.
Madam Jana Graves Owen, Healing Hands International Vice President of Operations told the people that “God, the Lord Jesus Christ, provided you with safe drinking water” and urged them to have faith and praise him always.
Source: Ghana News Agency