Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) in collaboration with National Service Personnel NSP, 2017-2018 year group who did their one year mandatory service with the Company, has sunk a bore-hole valued at GHC 12,500 to the Azorebisi Abaa Doone Community in Sumbrungu in the Upper East Region.
The move was mooted by GRIDCo who entrusted their 2017 batch of NSP to undertake a Corporate Social Responsibility, upon deliberations on the fact that equity was essential in the distribution of projects; they decide to consider a region that has not benefited before from their previous undertakings.
They saw a news item highlighting the need for potable water in Sumbrungu in the Upper East Region.
As a batch in agreement with the SDG goals three and five, they decided that everyone deserves access to good drinking water which Sumbrungu was no exception.
The Abaa Doone is one of the 10 clans in Azorebisi Community, Sumbrungu with a total population of about 550 people.
Their livelihoods depend mainly on subsistence farming, basket weaving and petty trading. Most of the youth in this community, hardly go far in their education due to poverty and lack parental guidance.
Before the advent of the bore-hole, the community relied on a ten years old rocky well for their source of water, which hardly survives the year.
An alternative was to commute a distance of about 3 kilometers to the next community for the element of survival.
The National President of GRIDCo NSP Robert Yartey, said the need to reach out to a community in dire need of water, is in line with the core objectives of the National Service Scheme which states “Help provide essential services and amenities, particularly in towns and villages of the rural areas of Ghana”.
He indicated that their mother company GRIDCo embracing the laudable initiative and supporting them financially is a feather in the cup.
In an address read by Mr. Abraham Doku on behalf of the Area Manager GRIDCo Tamale stated that, comfort and hygienic life come with having access to enough water for house hold use and this is very rare to come by in most rural settlements.
GRIDCo’s support for the project falls within their Corporate Social Responsibility and recognition of the basic fact that human being’s need to access clean drinking water. Mr. Doku said the assistance was a reflection of GRIDCo’s goodwill and friendship to the good people of Abaa Doone.
The Assembyman of the area Apomina Victor on behalf of the community thanked the GRIDCo NSP for the gesture, and A1 Radio for their immense role played in bringing the project to fruition and appealed for more support in the area of education for brilliant but needy children in the community.
The NSP also donated used clothing and sandals to the community members. Libation was later poured before a sod cutting to officially hand over the bore-hole to the community members.
Story by: GBC’s Emmanuel Akayeti
