Royal Bank constructs 18 boreholes in Upper West
The Royal Bank (TRB) has inaugurated and handed over 18 boreholes to 17 communities in the Upper West Region. By the gesture more than 30,000 people in the region would now have access to potable water.
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Eight of the boreholes are situated in seven communities in the Nadowli-Kaleo District and the remainder in 10 other communities in the Wa Municipality. The boreholes were constructed by the Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu TRB Foundation, the charity wing of the banking firm.
The recent inauguration of boreholes in the Upper West Region bring to 80 the total number of boreholes constructed by The Royal Bank through its foundation across the country over the past year.
Communities in the Upper West Region that have received boreholes from the bank include Zokyiera, Dambaale, Gbierong, Kpazie, Tangasie, Sampina and Kuntaali all in the Nadowli-Kaleo District. In the Wa Municipality communities presented with facility are Kabanye, Huriya, Zongo, Loho, Kaahaa, Vaaripuo, Jonga, Boli, Sing and Napugbakole.
The bank, through its charity foundation, had only recently also inaugurated and handed over 20 boreholes to some communities in the Upper East Region. The foundation intends to present 12 other development projects to some communities in the Northern Region next month.
Realising an objective
The Chairman of the Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu TRB Foundation, Rev. Faustell Asogba Cofie, said the projects that were handed over were the foundation’s dream becoming a reality.
“This is a fulfilment of the vision of the founder of the Foundation, the late Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu, to ease the plight of people in deprived communities,” he said.
He said the gesture was in conformity with the bank’s corporate social responsibility.
“Our goal is to support efforts aimed at preventing conditions that bring about diseases. By having access to potable drinking water, the people would be protected from waterborne diseases and this would ultimately relieve them of the payment of hospital bills and related costs,” he said.
According to an assembly member from one of the communities that received the boreholes, before now people had to walk as far as five kilometres in search of water and even what they got was unhygienic.
An 18-year-old junior high school graduate, Marceline Samba, who hails from Sampina, said she was highly delighted that her community finally had potable water as it had come to relieve them of the burden of having to endure water scarcity.
Vision fulfilled
The Director of operations, TRB Foundation, Dr Kwame Baah-Nuakoh, said the borehole facility was under the Foundation’s Water For Life project aimed at helping to reduce the incidence of diseases.
He said the founder of TRB, Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu, who died recently, conceived the idea of supporting deprived communities with basic amenities to improve upon their living conditions.
He said it was the determination of the foundation to construct 60 boreholes every year for communities across the country that were badly in need of water. He said the foundation hoped to put up six boreholes in each region of the country each year.
Alhaji Abdul Mumuni Adamu Iddrisu, the son of the late Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu, who is a board member of the foundation, advised the communities that had received the boreholes to take good care of them in order that they might last for a long time.
