World Vision through its Vision Fund has commissioned a mechanized water system for Abourso, a farming community in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern Region.
The project according to management of World Vision came to fruition through the Vision Fund and its Korean development partners.
The community before the construction of this new water facility previously had to make use of contaminated water from a stream which they normally shared with animals.
To make the facility more accessible, about five standpipes have been extended to various points in the community including the CHPS Center and the basic school. Overhead tanks have also been mounted to help with its production and distribution at all times.
In an interview with Citi News after commissioning and handing over the project to the assembly and community, the Board Chairman of World Vision Ghana, Baffuor Otu-Boateng indicated that the gesture was to alleviate the water crisis which had persisted for decades.
“World Vision is a Christian organization and we do this because of the love of God, we are child-focused, so we focus on vulnerable children and their families. And we are community-empowering so we don’t just do boreholes, but we work in conjunction with the community to partner, to form local management committees so that when we leave, these things can be sustainable, and the community can take care of it.”
He stressed, “As we heard from these events, the community itself has decided to form a committee to manage its affairs for this borehole. We are very hopeful that everything will go well, we are thankful to the chiefs of the area, and the DCE, for allowing us to have such a great occasion. Our prayer is that the children of this community will thrive and live life in all its fullness and become citizens of Ghana who contribute to the future of a greater Ghana.”
On his part, the Director of Vision Fund, Jonas Sowah Quaye, highlighted some of the initiatives executed by the fund, stressing on the importance of funding assistance from their Korean development partners.
“World Vision has a strategy of getting to a community identifying the specific needs of the community and finding a way of solving them, particularly as it affects women and children. In this instance, we realise that because of where this town is located, it’s difficult to get quality water so to sink a borehole ordinarily would have been what we would have done. But given the rocky nature of the area, the flow of the water itself would impede the people.”
“We decided that it should be mechanised and now to go through the process means a lot of money so we sought the help of our development partners in Korea to support us raise the necessary funds to meet it, fortunately for us today, we are here to inaugurate it in the hope that the community itself will maintain it and ensure it is sustainable into the future.”
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