Mabang (Ash), July 2, GNA - Madam Pamela Bridgewater, outgoing United States (US) Ambassador to Ghana, on Monday commissioned a 20,000-Ghana cedi water project for the Mabang Senior High School, at Mabang.
The project, which has come as a big relief to the school, was funded by the Ahafo-Ano North District Assembly, Otumfuo Education Fund and the Shiloh Baptist Church in Fredericburg, USA where Mrs Mary Bridgewater, mother of the Ambassador worships.
The Assembly dug the borehole for the school, while the Otumfuo Education Fund mechanized it and the Shiloh Baptist Church through the USA embassy provided 8,500 dollars for the distribution of the water to the students' dormitories and staff bungalows. Madam Bridgewater was happy that through partnership, the Shiloh Baptist Church together with two institutions in Ghana had made potable water easily accessible to the school community, adding that the church was committed to assisting the US embassy in Ghana in its foreign mission activities in the country.
Nana Eric Agyemang Prempeh, the District Chief Executive, advised the school to undertake regular monitoring of the water system and use it judiciously to sustain it.
He told the school authorities not to hesitate to collect tolls from the community to maintain the facility. Nana Prempeh announced that the Akwasiase and Mabang Small Town Water Supply Project estimated to cost 32,840 Ghana Cedis would soon take-off as bids for the contract were opened at the Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council on June 18, last month. Nana Darko Montwi II, Omanhene of Mabang and Miss Faustina Barden, Headmistress of the school, expressed their gratitude to the District Assembly, Otumfuo Education Fund and the Shiloh Baptist Church for making it possible for the school to overcome the perennial water problem with its associated academic, sanitation and indiscipline problems.
