FSDA-Ghana visits flood victims at Shime

Shime (V/R), Oct. 10, GNA - The Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa-Ghana (FSDA-Ghana), a non-governmental organization working in the fields of education, health as well as in the promotion of income generating activities in the Shime area of the Keta District in the Volta Region, on Wednesday visited flood victims in the Shime in the Anlo Constituency.

The visit, which was undertaken by a team of 10 officials and consultants and was led by the Executive Director of the Foundation, Mr Frederick Alipui and Mr Clement Kofi Humado, Member of Parliament for the constituency.

The Keta District has a total landmass of 1,086 square kilometres, a third of which is covered by water bodies in the form of estuarine lagoons and creeks, with several hundreds of additional square kilometres of surrounding flood plains and marshlands. Shime area covers about 25 communities, made up of 2,346 households and a total population of 8,800, of which, women form about 70 percent. Most of the men have migrated to other are as in search of jobs while some of the communities have been displaced, due to heavy rainfall.

Farms have been submerged, houses collapsed and communities have been separated from one another by floodwaters. Women and school children have not been able to go about their normal day-to-day activities.

Furthermore, drinking water sources have been contaminated by floods and the risk of pollution by human and animal excreta have heightened the risk of water-borne, diseases.

The Foundation has appealed to benevolent organizations to come to the aid of the flood victims by providing building materials; temporary shelters, clean water, mattresses and mosquito nets to enable them live a better life.