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GIMPA students assist people of Jarigu

GIMPA students assist people of Jarigu

The 2013/2014 MBA Group C batch of students of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has provided residents of Jarigu in the Tamale South District of the Northern Region with a hand-fitted borehole at a cost of GH¢13,000.

The borehole is to provide safe drinking water for the residents of Jarigu who have been competing with cattle for water from a stagnant dam for the past two decades. It formed part of the students’ social responsibility.

Inaugurating the project, the team leader of the group, Mrs Theodora White, said the initiative came as a result of a discussion held by members in her class, who discussed how they could undertake a project to make a meaningful impact on the lives of people in a deprived community in the country, and they settled on the project for Jarigu.

A seven-member team

She said a seven-member team was elected by the class to travel to the North, where they met the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Hanan Gundadow, who introduced them to four deprived villages including Jarigu.

Mrs White said upon study, Jarigu emerged the lucky village because it was the most populated amongst the four with one dirty dam that served as the only source of water for both the people and the animals in the village.

She said the funding came solely from the MBA Group C class, and the borehole was constructed by some students of the class with the help of a contractor.

According to her, this was just the first, and the students were thinking of undertaking more projects. She also urged students of other institutions to emulate this kind gesture.

A principal lecturer at the Tamale campus of GIMPA, who spoke on behalf of the Rector of the school, Professor Franklyn Acheampong Menu, urged the government to direct more of its resources to providing safe drinking water to communities in need of such facility, since water was the most important factor in human life.

He said GIMPA provided programmes which helped students to become useful in society by giving back what they had achieved in school.

Advice to residents

Mr  Gundadow advised the residents to put the borehole to good use and to ensure that it was not mishandled by children.

The chief of the village, Naa Yahaya Yakubu, thanked the students and the entire staff of GIMPA for saving the lives of the people of Jarigu.

Madam Baaba Rukaya, a resident of Jarigu, said they had depended on the dam for over 20 years, adding that the borehole would help improve upon their health conditions.

Fuseina Alhassan, a junior high school (JHS) student, told the Daily Graphic that she sometimes skipped school because she had to walk for long distances in search of water.

Madam Inusah Alhassan, a mother of two, also expressed joy and happiness at the provision of the borehole and said she could now cook and drink from a reliable source of water and not worry over her health conditions.

 

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