Ministry improving lives in the North

The Hope for Life Ministry, an inter-denominational Christian Evangelism Organisation in Tamale has undertaken social intervention measures in areas of health and education, water and sanitation to help improve lives in some rural communities.

Mr Adam Brown, leader of the Hope for Life Ministry, told the GNA in Tamale on Tuesday that the Ministry needed support to help in its campaign to raise the social, economic and health status of rural and neglected people through rural community development programmes and initiatives.

He said the Ministry’s activities span both the urban and rural environments with special emphasis on the neglected communities in rural and remote places, and that its target group was the youth and the aged.

Mr Brown said in partnership with friends, the Ministry had built rain water harvesting systems to provide four communities - Digma, Komlanyili, Chaagbuni and Kpenchila - with clean and safe water, which was critical for improved health for the pursuit of economic activities.

He said the Ministry’s health and sanitation initiative included periodically sending medical teams to provide basic and primary healthcare to rural inhabitants as well as offering them health and hygiene education.

He said the Ministry also focuses on the provision of water because water was a scarce commodity in the north and that most of the rural population still drunk muddy water, which resulted in them contracting communicable diseases such as diarrhea, typhoid and cholera.

Mr Brown called on corporate organisations, NGOs and philanthropists to join hands with the Ministry to help the needy in society and appealed for support to procure a pick-up vehicle to aid in evangelization.

He said the Ministry also needed a projector and a generator, some laptops, two motor-bikes and some financial support to enable it increase air time on radio evangelization that it had embarked to win more souls for Christ.