Bulenga U/W, June 28, GNA - The Adventist
Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), an NGO, has
provided 212 household latrines and thirty-three hand-dug
wells and boreholes to a number of communities throughout
the upper West Region, since 2002. The facilities, which were provided with funding from the
United USAID at a cost of 6.9 billion cedis was undertaken
under the water and sanitation component of ADRA's
programme. Speaking at ADRA-Ghana Environmental Sanitation
Awards Day held at Bulenga in the Wa East District of the
upper West Region, Mr Sampson Bediako Fordjour, Field
Project Officer of ADRA-Ghana said that, any attempt in
reducing poverty without cognisance of the importance of the
improvement on water and sanitation, was likely to fail, hence
the provision of the facilities. In all, six communities in the Wa municipality and Wa
East District, which were adjudged the clean communities,
were presented with awards made up of sanitation tools. Goripie community in the Wa East District was adjudged
the cleanest with Gundayiri and Bulenga taking the second
and third places respectively. Busa community in Wa municipality was also adjudged
the cleanest community with Biihee and Jonga following in
that order. They were presented with sanitation tools such as
wheelbarrows, Shovels. Dustbins and rakes among others. Bulenga Local Authority Primary School was adjudged
the first in the basic school category. In an address read on his behalf, Mr Ambrose Dery,
Upper West Regional Minister commended ADRA-Ghana for
its interventions in rural areas, which he said would go a long
way to ameliorate poverty among the rural people.
