Clothes Bank supports Tomefa residents
Clothe Bank Ghana last Saturday donated some clothes to the people Tomefa Island in the Greater Accra region.
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The donation marked the maiden edition of the clothe Ghana project.
The team was well welcomed by the chief and his elders at the chief’s compound, where the donation was made.
The Clothe Bank
Clothing Bank-Ghana Project provides clothes to help improve the lives of families and individuals who are less privilege or have suffered a disaster.
As an initiative of BeeGEE World Foundation, a Ghana based NGO, the project seeks to cover the entire nation with the help of individuals, societies and religious groups, organisations, cooperate groups and the government.
The project provides the opportunity for individuals and cooperate groups to donate new and used clothe to the less privilege in the society.
A dedicated team of Volunteers are engaged to go on a door-to-door exercise to create awareness, collect, sort, bank and re-distribute the donations to the less privilege.
Whereas the four phase of the project is on-going, the coordinators and other volunteers conduct Needs Assessment, Research and survey which include visiting potential beneficiary Villages and carefully select a deprived community that the project will be very beneficial to its indigenes.
Tomefa Island
Tomefa island is a fishing and farming community. The village is made up people from four different Tribes, including Ada, Tefle, Mefi and Ohuitse Kope with Ada and Ewe as the main speaking languages.
The serene island, which is currently covered by about seventy five percent water and twenty five percent of dry land, has a population well over a thousand.
Tomefa was originally an island on the Densu River until about 1980, when the Ghana Water Company Limited people detected that activities of the occupants could disturb the water body and that they had to relocate. It was for this reason that the chief of Ngleshie Amanfro gave the people of Tomefa land for their present settlement.
The village now has two private schools and four churches and a private health post. The village, which received electricity just about six months ago, currently uses the river water for their daily activities except drinking.
Challenges
In an interview with the Graphic Online, Oposika Tetteh said that the village was in need of a government school, a government clinic, tarred road and toilet facilities.
According to him, people of the village could hardly afford the services of the private schools and clinic which is closer to them. For this reason, most of their children cross the river with canoes to attend government schools on the other side which becomes difficult during rainy season.
Pregnant women in labour are also carried in canoes to government hospitals since the road to the private clinic is in poor condition and there are almost no cars around even the main station at night.
He called on the government to come to their aid and assist in improving the living conditions of the people of Tomefa.
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