By Dennis Peprah
Nsoatre, (Bono), May 15, GNA – Mr Solomon Boateng, the Founder and Director of the Heart for Children Foundation, a charity organisation, says the foundation has drilled 130 mechanised boreholes in the Sunyani West Municipality, providing clean water to the community members.
“We have integrated water into health”, he stated, adding that the foundation which also operated an orphanage in the Nsoatre community had taken the responsibility and distributed 300 pieces of sanitary pads free of charge to girls in deprived communities every month.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Boateng said the distribution of the sanitary pads remained necessary to improve personal hygiene and also sustain the interest of girls to stay in schools during their menstruation periods.
“We remain dedicated to impacting the Nsoatre community and the entire Sunyani West Municipality,” he stated, explaining that his organisation operated in four thematic areas of social, education, health and creating employment opportunities for the youth.
On health, he said the foundation had built an intensive care unit and standard pharmacy laboratory at the Nsoatre Hospital as well as a number of Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds in some of the deprived communities.
He said presently the foundation was putting up girls and boys’ dormitories at the Nsoatre Technical and Vocational Institute (NTVI), saying that it had also constructed a number of classroom blocks for the schools as well.
Mr Boateng said under its employable skills training, the foundation had set up a wood processing factory to offer employable skills training for the youth in the area, saying that presently it had enrolled 35 young people undergoing their training free of charge.
“We have also provided the trainees with free bicycles, also providing them with free meals to enable them to undergo their training,” he stated.
Mr Boateng said the foundation and its foreign partners were ready to engage more of the unemployed youth to undergo their skill training and advised the youth to develop the interest and make themselves available for the training and to acquire decent jobs.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah
Reporter: Dennis Peprah
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