A Kumasi-based non-government organisation, Madamfo Ghana Foundation, has commissioned 22 boreholes in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region to promote girl-child education.
Communities in the municipality are faced with water crisis affecting girl-child education. Most of the female students have to skip school sometimes to fetch water from long distances for domestic use.
They sometimes get to school late and tired making it difficult for them to pay full attention during teaching hours.
The new boreholes have helped to provide potable drinking water within the communities cutting down on traveling time in search of water.
The foundation provides social interventions to deprived communities across the country with funding from Germany. It has provided 14 hand-pumped boreholes and eight mechanised ones to 19 communities facing acute water shortages in the West Mamprusi Municipality.
The 22 boreholes are estimated at a cost of GHC500, 000.
The deputy country director of the foundation, Enock Sunday Atipoa, said that the goal of the NGO is to promote girl-child education in the area by providing potable drinking water.
“The first reason is that we want to use this opportunity to help our young ladies to stay in school. We want to use this medium to educate or promote girl-child education in the municipality.
“We also want to improve livelihoods by providing them with potable drinking water because we have seen that some of the water they drink is contaminated. Again, we want to help our women who have to also walk long distances to fetch water to come to cook for the children. We want them to have ample time.” he said.
The municipal chief executive, Issahaku Aremeyaw Somo, thanked the NGO for its support.
Reporting by Dokurugu Alhassan in the North East Region
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