Eighteen communities in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region have initiated self-help projects to address serious challenges confronting their people.
The projects range from teachers’ quarters, classrooms to Community Based Health Planning and Services, CHPS compounds.
To help in completing these projects, the District Assembly is supporting those communities with four hundred bags of cement and forty packets of zinc.
Presenting the package to some communities DCE for Wa East Moses Jotie said the assembly is reaching out to the communities so as to motivate others to do more.
Wa East District has about one hundred and forty-five communities. While some of are close to one other, others are far apart and sparsely populated, making provision of infrastructure difficult.
Instead of relying solely on government for everything some of the communities are initiating their own projects to address infrastructural challenges confronting them.
They however have difficulty in completing many of these projects. This necessitated the intervention of the assembly to enable them to complete the projects.
Presenting cement and zinc to eight communities in the district, the DCE Moses Jotie said the assembly is ready to support any community that initiates its own projects to complete them.
He noted that he was touched when he visited some of the communities and saw people working hard to put up their own educational and health infrastructure.
He said the support from the District Assembly Common Fund will enable the beneficiary communities to complete those projects while the government puts measures in place to provide permanent structures.
Mr. Jotie entreated communities to contact the assembly for drawings as well as supervision from the Works Department.
This, the DCE said will ensure standards in the implementation of self-help projects. Two teachers at Kulpkong, one of the beneficiary communities told Radio Ghana that accommodation is one their major challenges.
Mr. Boritie Titus, a teacher at Kulkpon D/A JHS who live in the community for the past two years said it was difficult for him to get accommodation until a teacher moves out of the teachers’ quarters under construction.
Madam Baidau Zakaria of Kulkpon KG called for more of such donations to provide accommodation for teachers and other workers.
Both teachers expressed the hope that the assistance will help in completing two teachers’ quarters in the community to ameliorate their suffering.
Other communities that received the package are Bulee number one to complete a mobile CHPS compound, Bulee number two to complete a school block, Chaggu for teachers’ quarters, Chaggu paala for school block and Tiisa for school kitchen.
The assembly member for Kulkpon, Yuoriyi Leo and the chief of Kupkpon Naa Abu Salia Bafarodo commended the DCE and the assembly for supporting the course of communities to improve on their lives.
They gave the assurance that the materials will be used for the purpose for which they are donated.
Story by Sualah Abdul-Wahab
