Mware, March 23, GNA – The Ghana Red Cross Society has provided a borehole for the people of Mware in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region, to mark this year’s World Water Day (WWD).
It is the sixth borehole dug for the District since last year, with funding from the SWISS Red cross.
Mr Paul Wooma, the Upper East Regional Manager of Ghana Red Cross Society, said the goal of the GRCS was to push further the agenda 2030, reduce the gap of population with no access to portable drinking water and to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Six.
He urged all to be part of the global effort at enhancing access to clean and potable drinking water.
Mr Wooma said, his outfit shared the global challenge and added that though Red Cross could not solve all the water problems, the six boreholes in the district would remain a lasting memory for the Swiss Red Cross in the move to achieve total access to water and sanitation
The principal focus of WWD was to support the achievements of the UN SDGs Six, which was to ensure safe water and sanitation by all, and this year, the day was celebrated under the theme: Ground water, making the invisible visible.”
Ms Doreen Awuku, the Project Coordinator of GRSC, also sensitised the Mware community members on the theme “Water is life” and took them through the importance of keeping their drinking water clean and safe to prevent contamination.
The Pusiga District Assembly represented by Mr James Daare Saaka, a Development Planning Officer, also commissioned a seven member WATSAN Committee made up of four women and three men to be responsible for the welfare of the borehole.
Madam Abiba Jaani and Mariama Alhassan, on behalf of the women in the community, said for more than five years they trekked to distant communities to find water since the only 40-year-old borehole broke down and it was a difficult task for Traditional Birth Attendants and the health centre to carry out deliveries without water.
They thanked GRCS and the Swiss Red Cross for coming to their aid with the borehole and promised to take good care of it.
GNA