Communities benefit from 70 boreholes water pumps

Katapor (G/A), Jan. 8, GNA - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Thursday revived the hope of getting potable water of more than 25 communities and villages in the Ga South District when it handed over 70 borehole water pumps it rehabilitated at a cost of 1,400 dollars.

Some of the communities, which included Katapor, Bordumase, Otsrikomfo and Odonkorman and had their boreholes damaged and had had to rely on rivers and streams as their sources of water supply for several years.

Mr Ike Ferguson, Deputy Director of Temporal Affairs of the Church, described the assistance as a gift because the funds were mobilized from individual members of the Church.

He asked the chiefs and people to see the water pumps as their own and maintain them.

Mr Ferguson said as a Church it was incumbent upon them to continue the good works of Lord Jesus Christ in sharing whatever they had with those who had not; hence their commitment to providing such humanitarian services to deprived communities.

Mr Ernest Armah, Member of Parliament for Ga South thanked the Church for the gesture and appealed to the people to see the forthcoming voters registration exercise as crucial.

"You must see the exercise which begins later this month as very important, everybody must go and register and vote wisely," Mr Armah told them.