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Kongo SHS gets new mechanized borehole

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Kongo Senior High School in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region has been supported with a mechanized borehole to address the pressing challenge of acute water source that has been affecting academic work of students in the school.

Students for the past years have been wrestling with community members in their search for potable drinking water to the detriment of their academic lessons. This exigent situation caught the attention of a Catholic Priest and Philanthropist, Monsignor Rev.Father Roger Aboteyuure.

Availability of potable drinking water to all which is one of the bosom priorities of the Priest made him to reach out to solicit funds from his international friends and contacts to address the challenge.

Speaking at a ceremony to handover the project to the school in Kongo, Monsignor Aboteyuure said his friends supported him to construct the mechanized borehole after he shared ordeals people go through before getting potable drinking water through letters.

According to him, his knowledge about the situation of the Nabdam area with regards to water, prompted him to bequeath the project to the school.

“Since I had a lot of friends all over Canada and the States, I write them letters of which I always lament that people have no water to drink and there was this Cardinal who was in Rome and in those days when I was going to Rome, very often we were accommodated there …so I became known to that Monsignor but he was not yet a Bishop but he became a Bishop and we met again then they transferred him to New York and he is the Cardinal for New York…so he got my Charismas Letter and told me that I should drill the borehole so that he will handled that” he explained 

Monsignor Roger Aboteyuure therefore impressed upon the school’s authorities and students to ensure that the borehole is put into judicious use and maintained to serve its intended purpose.  

Assistant Headmaster In Charge of Administration, Adiisi James expressed gratitude for the kind gesture extended to the school describing the project as a ‘timely intervention’ while, the students assured that they will use the hours of searching for water to learn to become beneficial to society.

The Water Project was attached with a plaque in honor of Bishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dalan in collaboration with Msgr. Marc Filacchione and Angela Torres both from the Society for Propagation of Faith of Archdiocese of New York.

 Meanwhile, Msgr. Roger Aboteyuure has for the past years contributed to the development in the area of Education, Health, Infrastructure and to a large extent the catholic churches in the Upper East Region and beyond.

Source:A1Radioonline.com|Samuel Mbura

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