UK-based charity supports two communities

A United Kingdom charity organization, Ghana Outlook (GO), has sponsored three projects in the Nimbare and Kampoare communities in Jirapa District of the Upper West Region.

The projects, which include the construction of one new borehole the rehabilitation of an existing one, and a toilet facility, are to help to improve the lives of the people.

This feat was achieved through collaborative efforts, initiated early this year by the GO and the Coalition for Change (C4C), a non-governmental organization, dedicated to empowering communities through the capacity building of community members.

The projects mark the first phase of a series of interventions earmarked to benefit deprived communities in the region within the operational area of C4C.

Madam Ruby Yap, C4C Executive Director, interacting with members of the communities to find out how the projects were impacting on the lives of the people, said the goal of GO was to assist rural communities to enhance their future through self-help programmes.

The NGO would help to improve agricultural and educational infrastructure, she said.

All the three projects, which started early October and were completed at the end of the month, are situated in the Kpekyag section of the two communities.

Materials were provided to the communities while the community members provided labour for the rehabilitation of the borehole and the toilet facility.

Madam Yap said a contractor was hired to install the new borehole, monitored by a “facilitation team” of the communities and C4C.

She said the interventions would help prevent the spread of cholera and other sanitary related diseases, which had claimed many lives already.

The members of the communities thanked the GO and the C4C for relieving them of the burden of their school children who used to defecate in the bush and crowded at their old borehole for water.

A community member, Madam Paula Tuolaanuo, who was amused about the projects remarked: “The time our gallons used to get missing due to long queues is over and I am happy to witness this. God bless GO and C4C’’.

She called on the communities to be grateful to GO for the kind gesture and gave the assurance that the facilities would be opened to all passers-by who may be in need of water or toilet.

Mr. Kevin Kelly, Chairman of GO, expressed his appreciation to C4C for their dedication and efforts to successfully implement the project.

“We look forward to further partnership projects in the future,” he said. “Together we can achieve great benefits for the communities that are in need of help”.

Mr. Kelly said the Trustees of GO were aware that there were many deprived communities needing many projects, and was optimistic that the organisation would do well to support them with projects it could fund from their donors.