Twenty-eight communities of the Upper East Region are now benefiting from safe drinking water through the initiative of Kalabash Ghana Foundation, a local Non-Governmental Organization based in Bolgatanga.
In an exclusive interview with A1 News, the Communications and Public Relations Officer of Kalabash Ghana, William N. Jalulah, disclosed that between 2008 and 2012, the NGO has drilled eighteen boreholes in eighteen communities while ten other communities also benefitted from mechanized water systems.
Giving the breakdown, the PRO said nineteen communities in the Kassena-Nankana East Municipality benefited from the water project; two in the Talensi District, five in the Kassena-Nankana West and one in the Bolgatanga Municipality. Mr. Jalula said: “Out of the ten mechanize systems; we have two of them that are at Nabango in Paga and Sokabisi in Bolga. They were already having boreholes and we went and mechanize them for them”.
Mr. Jalulah said his out will soon commission some mechanized water system at Nogsenia and the St John’s Integrated Special School. According to him five boreholes provided in the Kasena-Nankana Municipality were done in partnership with the Kasena-Nankana Municipal Assembly between February and April this year.
By: Joshua Asaah | A1radioonline.com | Ghana
