LEFT: The sanitation equipment. RIGHT: Mr Timothy A. Amang-bey Akanpabadai taking a sip after handing over the borehole to the community.

World Vision supports Zongo East with water, sanitation equipment

Gertrude Ankah Sep - 12 - 2017 , 06:03

World Vision, Ghana has provided Zongo East, a community in the Saboba District in the Northern Region, with a variety of sanitation equipment and a mechanised borehole to help improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices in the area.

The items, which included wheelbarrows, wellington boots, hoes, litter bins, nose masks, gloves, shovels, head pans, broomsticks, machetes and pickaxes, were valued at about GH¢15,000.

The presentation coincided with the National Sanitation Day (NSD) activities in the district.

Sanitation

The Northern Regional Operations Manager of World Vision, Ghana, Mr Timothy Amang-bey Akanpabadai, handed over the items during a district- wide clean-up exercise to mark the NSD in the district.

He stated that keeping the environment clean was not only the duty of the district assembly and a single company but a collective duty.

Mr Akanpabadai called on the people to desist from open defecation and other bad sanitation practices to prevent the outbreak of cholera and other related diseases.

He said World Vision was deeply involved in the provision of safe drinking water to the people in the district and had provided 19 boreholes to some deprived communities this year.

“Good drinking water for the people will help to reduce the disease burden in the district and save women and children from walking long distances in search of water.

This affected the education of children since most of them have to abandon classes in search of water,” he said.

Sanitation bye-laws

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Saboba, Mr George K. Bingrini, expressed appreciation to World Vision for the gesture and said it would go a long way to support the NSD exercise.

Mr Bingrini added that sanitation bye-laws would be enforced and people who disobeyed them would face full sanctions.

The Chairman of the Community Water Board, Pastor Philip Akwesi Jidoh, on behalf of the community, expressed appreciation to World Vision for providing them with a mechanised borehole.