Savelugu (NR), Nov. 25, GNA - The Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), an international NGO based in Tamale has provided sanitation equipment and first aid boxes with medicine worth GH=A2 2500 (25 million cedis) to communities in its operational areas to improve their sanitation and lifestyles.
Mrs. Sanatu Nantogmah, Country Director of CCFC who made the presentation at the weekend at Savelugu said sanitation was a serious health problem facing rural dwellers and needed attention to improve the health status of the people.
She also presented educational suppliers to the Savelugu/Nanton District Assembly for distribution to some 3,500 school children. The suppliers included large quantities of books, pens, slats, pencils, chalk and crayons worth 68 million cedis or GH=A2 6800. The CCFC supported the Tuma Kavi Development Association, another NGO operating in Tamale with funds to purchase the materials to help school children in 16 communities in the district as well as assisting in environmental cleanliness.
Mrs. Nantogmah said CCFC, working with five local partners in the Northern Region had succeeded in supporting women and children to improve their lifestyles and their health status in rural communities. She said the NGO had sponsored 1,664 children to enrol in schools and had also helped six schools financially to enrol more girls and that, five 3-classroom blocks and a teachers' quarters had been constructed for the Zogu community to improve rural education. She advised the beneficiary schools and children to make judicious use of the educational suppliers and help the communities practice good hygiene to improve their health status.
Mrs. Nantogmah said CCFC/Tuma Kavi would continue to provide more sanitation equipment to other communities in their operational areas to ensure that they practiced good hygiene to avoid contracting malaria and cholera diseases.
Alhaji Abubakari Inusah, Deputy District Coordinating Director for Savelugu/Nanton, who received the books and the sanitation equipment on behalf of the communities and the schools said the district would help the NGO by supplying more equipment to improve sanitation.
