The chiefs and people of Mafi-Kumase in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region have launched a three-year sanitation improvement project.
The project which will be implemented between January 2020 and December 2023, seeks to address the sanitation problems within the community and its environs.
This is to promote healthy living and economic growth. The project was launched at the 30th-anniversary celebration of “Tsiza” (Water Festival).
Mafi-Kumase “Tsiza” or Water Festival was instituted about three decades ago to mark an end to the emergence of water-borne diseases that plagued the community and its environs.
The absence of potable water at the time especially during dry seasons is said to have compelled residents to depend on contaminated sources.
In effect, many citizens of the area, especially children died through guinea worm infection, diarrhoea, bilharzia, among others.
The epidemic was brought to an end when the Mafi-Kumase water supply system was commissioned on November 18, 1989, with support from the community of Elgg in Zurich Switzerland through the effort of a citizen, Ing Kolly Darcoo who was studying in Switzerland at the time.
Mr Kolly said patriotism and commitment to his community’s progress compelled him to make the move.
