La Community Bank provides borehole at Labone SHS
A mechanised borehole to supply potable water to the female boarding students of the Labone Senior High School in the Greater Accra Region has been inaugurated.
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The GH¢8,500 electricity-powered borehole at the girls’ dormitory was initiated by the La Community Bank.
The borehole has the capacity to supply 5000 gallons of water daily.
Project inaugurated
At the ceremony at the school in Accra, the Director of the bank, Major Amarkai Amarteifio (retd), said the project was one of many which the company was undertaking as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR).
He stated that the project was also evidence of what corporate bodies could do to develop the communities and the country as a whole.
“The bank is not only here to collect money, save it and multiply it but also to develop La and in the process develop the country,” he added.
Major Amarteifio, who is also an old student of the school, said it was clear the girls needed more water for various reasons, thus the company’s decision to site the project at the girls’ dormitory.
He, therefore, called on the students and school management to use the borehole for its intended purpose and maintain it regularly.
The Executive Director of the bank, Mr Augustus Pappoe, said the bank was proud to be associated with the gesture of satisfying a major need of the female students in the school.
Emulate gesture
The Headmistress of the school, Ms Kate Bannerman, expressed gratitude to the bank, saying that the school had faced water problems for a very long time to the extent that students sometimes had to wake up as early as 4:00am to fetch water.
Mrs Bannerman said the provision of the borehole had come at the right time to solve the perennial problem and urged other non-governmental organisations, civil society institutions and corporate bodies to emulate the gesture.
Excited student
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, a form two female student, Keziah Ansah, said the water situation used to affect them so much so that sometimes they had to use only two pails of water to bath.
She added that she was happy they did not have to use ‘manpower’ to pump the water but rather with electricity, water could be pumped directly into their polytanks and pipes at all times.
