Two bodies receive $160,000 Japanese support
The Government of Japan has extended a grant of $160,000 to the Ve Traditional Area in the Volta Region and Anum Presby Vocational Training Institute in the Eastern Region to improve their water, sanitation and educational facilities.
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The grant was provided under the Japan Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGHSP) scheme.
The scheme, which was introduced in Ghana in 1989, focuses on communities with basic needs in the areas of health, education, agriculture and public welfare.
The others are human security, basic infrastructure, capacity building and empowerment. It has so far supported about 300 such projects across the country.
Projects
At a ceremony in Accra where the two beneficiaries signed a memoranda of understanding (MoU) with the donor, the Japanese Head of Mission to Ghana, Mr Shigeru Umetsu, gave a breakdown of the grant and said the Ve Traditional Area received $81,200 while the Presby Vocational Training Institute had US$79,200.
He said the main component of the project in the traditional area was the construction of 12 standpipes, pump installation, provision of distribution mains, transmission mains, high level tank and audit fee.
Mr Umetsu gave a breakdown of projects for the Anum Presby Vocational Training Institute to include the construction of a dormitory block, provision of students’ beds, water reservoir and audit fee.
He expressed optimism that the investment would improve water supply, sanitation, as well as ensure quality education in the beneficiary areas and their environs.
Success story
For his part, the Director of the Centre for Integrated Education and Development, the brain behind the Ve Traditional Area project, Mr Anthony Kwame Adanua, said the new project would serve a population of 8,136 people with 12 standpipes.
He explained that unlike previous ones, the new project was the mechanisation of an existing borehole into a reservoir.
Mr Adanua said the organisation had, in the past, undertaken projects that were financed by the Japanese Embassy, among which was the provision of potable water to 19 needy communities in the South Tongu District.
“We served a total population of 5,792 with 22 fetching points and the total cost of the three projects amounted to GH¢545,721.18,” he added.
The Manager of the Anum Presby Vocational Training Institute, Mr Martin Ekow Young, assured that the project would be executed according to plan.
