By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The Headmaster of the Asesewa Senior High School, Reis Paul Okoto has called on the government and other philanthropists to assist the School with adequate potable water.
According to him, the volume of water they are served with is not enough to meet the demands of the students and teachers.
Mr. Okoto said this when an NGO in Water and Sanitation, GrowthAid, with support from the Latter Days Saints Charities handed over a mechanized borehole to the School. The borehole is to help them address their water issues.
Mr. Okoto said the School spends a lot of money on water for the students; even though the CWSA has been providing them with water, which is not enough and does not come frequently.
He said some of the students have taken the advantage of the situation to sneak out of campus in the name of searching for water.
Some of the students shared their experiences and said they walk for two hours to search for water and sometimes come to campus without any water.
Meanwhile the medical superintendent of the Asesewa Government Hospital, Dr. Theodore Dorvlo has called on the government to, as a matter of urgency, assist the hospital with the necessary facilities to function well.
According to him, the hospital is faced with a lot of infrastructural problems; adding that the worst of them is a water crisis.
Dr. Dorvlo said this when the GrowthAid handed over a mechanized borehole to the hospital. He said the hospital spends a lot of money to buy water from water tankers to run the facility.
He thanked GrowthAid for their support.
The Chief Executive Officer of GrowthAid, Dr. Joe Lambingang charged the students to continue to wash their hands regularly with soap and water; and advised them to take good care of the facility.
growth and as part of its Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, (SWASH), the project has provided 24 mechanized boreholes to some communities and institutions within the Yilo lower and Upper Manya Krobo Municipalities.
The project according to GrowthAid is to provide improved SWASH services for the prevention and management of WASH-related transmitted diseases for over eighteen thousand poor and marginalized people.
