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Ayeya Village ends decades of water scarcity in Naaga-Chaaba with borehole donation

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The Naaga-Chaaba community in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has been provided with a lifeline as Ayeya Village commissioned a mechanized borehole to address the community’s long-standing water challenges.

For decades, the residents of Naaga-Chaaba battled for access to potable drinking water. The single borehole serving the community proved insufficient, leading to overcrowding and forcing some women to trek miles to neighboring communities for water. This daily ordeal, described as “survival of the fittest,” is now a thing of the past thanks to Ayeya Village’s intervention.

The newly commissioned mechanized borehole features multiple dispensing taps, designed to eliminate long queues and ensure efficient access to water for all. Speaking at the colorful commissioning ceremony, Brenda Orelus, Director of Operations for Ayeya Ghana, emphasized that the borehole is part of the Ayeya Water Project, which aims to provide continuous access to safe drinking water. She emphasized that the project aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals by promoting health, education, and overall community development.

“If you want to support the women, if you want to support the children, if you want to support the expansion of our Western traditions and the dignity, we have to make sure that they have access to clean water. So with each community that we impact, we always want to ensure that we create a clean water borehole,” she stated.

Brenda Orelus

Ayeya Village, known for processing shea nuts into butter and producing natural skin products and black soap using indigenous materials, undertook the project as part of its corporate social responsibility. The initiative particularly benefits the women who pick shea nuts to feed Ayeya’s processing factory in Sherigu.

The ceremony was attended by notable figures, including Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, founder of NKWA and a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL. He praised Ayeya for giving back to the community that supports its operations.

“We are here today in full support of Ayeya, because of the tremendous work that they do in indigenous spaces. While the work is good, the work is not just the important thing, but it is about the intentionality and the genuine nature that Ayeya has come to help different communities. It is said that every action shall be judged by the intention, and whatever you cross over for, or that you do the work for, that you shall receive,” he lauded Ayeya.

Tree seedlings were provided by the company to plant at the premises of schools and other parts of the community. The paramount chief of the Naaga Traditional Area, Naba Olando Ayamga Awuni III, expressed profound gratitude to Ayeya for providing safe drinking water to his people. He pledged the community’s commitment to maintaining the facility to ensure its longevity.

Atiba Nancy, Secretary of the Chaaba Women’s Cooperative Group, also lauded Ayeya for its consistent support. She noted that Ayeya offers better prices for the shea nuts they pick compared to the open market, and the provision of potable water has further strengthened their partnership.

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