Sunyani West District appeals for assistance to extend water supply

Kwatire (B/A), March 24, GNA - Mr. Kwadwo Osei Asibey, Sunyani West District Chief Executive, has called on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and philanthropists to augment the efforts of the district assembl= y to provide potable water to deprived communities in the area. Mr. Asibey made the appeal when the African Assistant Plan, a Christ= ian NGO held a durbar at Kwatire in the district to mark the World Water Day celebration. He noted that the lack of potable water contributes to the outbreak of diseases such as typhoid, bilharzia and Buruli ulcer.

Mr. Asibey appealed to the traditional authorities and opinion leade= rs to ensure that the people live in healthy and clean environment to guard against the outbreak of communicable diseases. The Chief Executive later inaugurated a borehole constructed by Afri= can Assistant Plan at the cost of GHc 7,500 for the people of Kwatire and its=

environs. Mr. Martin Djan, Assemblyman for Kwatire expressed concern that scho= ol children in the area were turning into Indian hemp peddlers and smokers. He said as a result the community was recording petty thefts and appealed to the District Security Committee to take immediate steps to br= ing the situation under control.

Mr. Djan noted that the student population in the area had increased=

tremendously because of the introduction of the capitation grant and the school feeding programme and asked the assembly to provide more classroom=

blocks to ease congestion in the educational facilities. Bishop David Donkor, Chief Executive Officer of the NGO, said the organisation had decided to construct 10 boreholes in the district and al= so targeted the deworming of more than 10,000 children in the Brong Ahafo Region, this year. The NGO had also arranged for medical equipment from its partners abr= oad to be distributed to health centres in deprived communities in the regio= n. Bishop Donkor said 400 deprived communities in the country had so far been provided with boreholes adding that the NGO was undertaken similar projects in neighbouring Liberia, Cote d' Voire and Togo .