Philanthropist Donate Borehole to Yorogo Asorogubisi Community
The challenge the people of Yorogo Asorogubisi in the Bolgatanga Municipality go through daily in search for potable drinking water is now a thing of the past as a philanthropist on Monday handed over a borehole to the community.
The borehole was donated by Radwin Elhassan, Nour Elhassan, Rhianna Elhassan and their family in Australia and Lebanon.
The donation has come to end long walking distance journey women and children in the community were embarking on daily to join long queues before they could fetch water at neighboring communities for consumption and household chores.
The situation there was affecting teaching and learning in schools in the community since school children were reporting late and sometimes exhausted to concentrate in the classroom due to the long distance walk they had to endure in search for potable drinking water.
At a short ceremony to hand over the borehole to the community members, the philanthropist who doubles a manager and head of security operations of Cassius Mining Limited, a mining firm in the Talensi district, Radwin Elhassan said the donation of the borehole is a corporate social responsibility of his family and the mining firm following complaints to him of the lack of potable drinking water at Yorogo Asorogubisi.
He admonished the community members to adopt regular maintenance of the borehole for the borehole to last for the period it deserves. Mr. Elhssan pledged to offer other social amenities to deserving communities in the region.
He said “especially in the mining area we can support the communities a lot as the company [Cassius Mining Limited] grows.”
Assembly member for Yorogo Tingre electoral area, Bawa Atule in his words of gratitude said the provision of the borehole has come to salvage the community members from further drinking contaminated water from a dilapidated well dug in the 90s; a condition which prevents “strangers who come to the village from drinking water which have been served to them”.
According to Mr. Atule “since the beginning of 1992 democratic elections, politicians came and deceived the community [members] without providing them [with] potable [drinking] water so when I was campaigning to become the assembly member I promised them that I will do all my best and provide them [with] potable [drinking] water and the people rallied behind me and I was successful on the elections.”
Narrating the event leading to the drilling of the borehole he stated that “a brother of mine [Alhaji Shaibu Amidu] is with one company that is Cassius Company and [he informed] one Mr. Roy [Radwin] about the predicament of the community, he [Radwin] was able to come into the community, he saw the water problem in the community then he made it a point and really the borehole was drilled.”
The community members who could not hide their joy over the gesture sang and dance to the admiration of the German philanthropist. The borehole was drilled and supervised by Azeeda Company limited, a private company in the Upper East region that is into the drilling and mechanization of boreholes in and outside the region.
By: Joshua Asaah|A1radioonline.com|Ghana
