Japan supports Construction of Boreholes in E/Region

Japan supports Construction of Boreholes in E/Region 

By Mohammed Awal

The government of Japan under the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGHSP) scheme has given an amount of $119,964 to the Hunger Project-Ghana (THP-Ghana) to construct 10 mechanized boreholes in 10 epicenter clinics in the Eastern Region.

The ten(10) epicenter clinics to benefit from this goodwill are located at Kwakyekrom in Akwapim District, Aworasa in West Akim, Adonkwanta in East Akim, Kwaboadi in Akyemansa,Tweapese in Birim North, Atuobikrom in Kwahu south, Konkoney in Upper Manya Krobo, Anyansu in Asuogyaman, Akpo-Akpamu and Obenyemi, both in the Yilo krobo Districts..

The project was aimed at providing safe water to improve sanitation and delivery of quality health in these selected epicenter clinics within these communities.

 The Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Mr. Naoto Nikai told the media at a signing ceremony for grant assistance between GGHSP and the THP-Ghana in Accra Tuesday.

Mr. Nikai added that the project is estimated to benefit about 55,056 people in these selected communities of the Eastern Region.

Mr. Nikai further revealed that, THP-Ghana’s ‘Epicenter Development Strategy’ would be pursued with a lot of commitment and determination as it has been done since 2001, to ensure the total wipe out of hunger and poverty in rural communities in Ghana.

The development strategy he said, would position THP-Ghana to contribute significantly to the attainment of all the (8) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Ghana.

The strategy he noted would adopt an integrated participatory and decentralized grassroots approach to poverty reduction and development.

The Country Director of THP-Ghana, Mr. Samuel Erasmus Afrane on his part assured the beneficiary communities that, from now on issues of lack of safe water that has bedeviled them for decades would now be a thing of the past.