North East Region: Qatar Charity commissions four mechanised boreholes
Three of the four boreholes were commissioned in the Walewale township, while the remaining one was commissioned at Kukua, a suburb of Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region, to help the residents, especially women who walk through thick and thin, get water for domestic use
A humanitarian and development non-governmental organisation, Qatar Charity, has commissioned four mechanised boreholes in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region to manage the water crisis in the municipality.
Three of the boreholes were commissioned in the Walewale township, while the remaining one was commissioned at Kukua, a suburb of Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region. The aim is to help the residents, especially women who walk for long distance, to get water for domestic use.
Residents in Walewale township depend on donkey trucks and tricycle drivers for potable water during the dry season for domestic use, but the donation of the four boreholes will mitigate the water challenges in the selected areas, officials of the non-profit said.
The move taken by the Qatar Charity Foundation is to ensure that people in the selected communities where the four boreholes were commissioned have access to potable drinking water and be able to do their house chores without facing water challenges.
The MCE for the area, Issahak Arimeyaw Basintale Somo Lucky, thanked the Qatar Charity Foundation for their unwavering support and implored them to bring more of the boreholes to the municipality to address the water crisis.
“Today, we are commissioning the fourth borehole in the municipality. I want to use this opportunity to thank the Qatar Charity for the support that they have given to the West Mamprusi Municipal Assembly through our honourable MP.
“In fact, in this particular area, if you look at the surroundings, we don’t have any symptoms of water. We were even surprised that they were able to find water around the area,” he said.
“We are appealing for more boreholes in the area and in the municipality so that every household will have access to water,” Lucky added.
He also urged the locals to take proper care of the boreholes to ensure that they serve their intended purposes.
Reporting by Dokurugu Alhassan in the North East Region
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