NGO supports deprived Ada island communities with school and clinic

There are about twenty seven island communities in the Dangme East District of Ada, with its residents being mostly farmers and fisher folks. Majority of these communities have neither electricity nor safe drinking water leaving the people at the mercy of waterborne diseases.

All waste products from these communities end up in the Volta river after it rains, polluting their main and only natural source of water.

The nature and geographical positioning of these communities also pose a challenge for the Local Assembly and external developers because every movement and conveyance of items for development depend on canoes which don’t have the capacity for such purposes.

With all these health challenges confronting the area, there is only one health facility, a clinic, which takes care of the entire twenty seven communities. Adults and children including the disabled and pregnant women have to travel by small boats to access medical care. Most of the time, some of these pregnant women are caught in labour when traveling on the river to the next town to receive health care.

It is on this front that, the Ada East District Assembly appealed to the NGO, Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope to help put interim measures in place for these deprived communities.

The NGO responded positively and provided thirty water purification equipments which were distributed to thirteen communities. Apart from the water purification machines, a health centre and a central school have also been provided.

In a durbar to hand over the equipments to the communities, the District Chief Executive of the Dangme East District, John Nurudeen Ahortu said, they as Assembly admitted that the island communities have numerous challenges in terms of health, sanitation and education, hence their appeal to NGOs for support which Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope responded in good measure.

Asafoatsengua Tsatsu Pediadator IV, in his turn, encouraged the community members to use the equipments as instructed and keep them well maintained.

The leader of the NGO, Ghanaian Mothers’ Hope, Madam Debi Frock promised the communities of more of such interventions in the future.

The communities in gratitude, presented her with a Ghanaian dress, and crowned her with the name Ohui, symbolising the first Female born of the Kudjragbe Division of the Ada Traditional Area.