A photo from the event
The Boresah Royal Foundation, in collaboration with the US Army, has rallied women at Daboya to clean their surroundings.
The cleanup exercise and School Sanitation Summit formed part of the US Army Flintlock 2024. The Women Peace and Security Division of the US Army spearheaded the entire exercise.
Queen Boresah Fantevie is one of the honorees by the U.S. Embassy in Ghana as a champion of Gender-Based Violence in 2022.
She has partnered with the Embassy since then to advance the rights of women and leading advocacy against GBV.
The event had the massive support of the paramount chief of the Wasipe traditional area, HRM Wasipewura Yakubu Anyame Kabasagya II, who rallied all the women and youth groups, schools, Zoomlion, and other government agencies to come out in their numbers for the exercise.
Speaking to participants, he urged everyone to keep their surroundings clean and dispose of waste properly. He also added that dumping waste in the White Volta, which passes through the community, will be a thing of the past and advised all to live at peace with each other.
The Director of Environmental Health bemoaned the inadequate logistics at the district office for their effective operations and called on the Boresah Royal Foundation and others to lend a hand.
Queen Boresah Fantevie, Executive Director of the Boresah Royal Foundation, during the handing over of logistics worth thousands of cedis, admonished recipients to use them judiciously to keep and make Daboya green.
Items donated include dustbins, wheelbarrows, brooms, shovels, rakes, among others, to the traditional council, all schools in the community, the environmental health office, and Zoomlion.
At the School Sanitation Summit, which brought together all the schools in the community for a poetry and art competition, students recited poems about the cause and effects of environmental pollution, while others presented beautiful artworks on the same topic. Students were tasked to be ambassadors of sanitation and peace in the community.
Winners were honoured with awards ranging from books, mathematical sets, dictionaries, and footballs, among others.
Kathryn M. Maitrejean, Women, Peace, and Security Planner of the US Army Flintlock 2024, admonished all to continue the exercise in their various homes going forward and pledged the support of the Women, Peace, and Security Division's continuous partnership with the Boresah Royal Foundation to help improve the lives of women and children.
"Women’s health matters because women give life."
In her concluding remarks, Queen Boresah Fantevie, who doubles as the Development Queen of the Yagbon (Gonja) Kingdom with the title Nkligiwurche Boresah Iddisah Jeduah I, expressed great gratitude to the US Army WPS division for this great partnership and support and to the community for participating massively in the exercise.
According to her, SDG goals 5 and 6 were at the heart of the exercise, seeking to foster gender equality and ensure the Daboya community has safe drinking water and a clean environment.
Global warming and issues of climate change are global issues; hence the need to join the world at large in preserving the environment.
She says the Boresah Royal Foundation will continue to advance the rights of women and girls because women’s lives matter.
