Five communities to get potable water

The Royal Bank (TRB) Foundation has spent about GH¢70,000 to construct boleholes for five communities in the Eastern region.

The communities are Asuboi Ahyiakrom, Mankrong, Budu, Anom Adabre and Dzatokope, all in the Ayensoano District. 

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, Mr Faustell Kwashie Asogba Cofie, who led a team of journalists to the Eastern Region to inaugurate the boleholes, called on the communities take very good care of the facilities.

According to him, the communities were selected on the basis of a demonstrable need for potable drinking water.

“These are five of 60 communities around the country which will benefit from the foundation’s water project, with five having already been provided with water in Accra,” he said.

He said five communities in the Central Region would be the next to benefit from the bolehole project.

“We will then move to the Volta, Western and Ashanti regions in that order,” he added.

The Ayensoano District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Mike Ofori Darko, commended the management of the bank for helping the communities.

He said the biggest challenge in the district was access to potable water and so the provision of the boleholes was a great relief to him and the communities.

He called on the TRB and other corporate bodies to help the assembly enhance education in the district.

The euphoria and the fanfare that greeted the inauguration of the bolehole project were enormous.

The beneficiary communities have one thing in common: they lack potable water.

The chiefs and people of Anom Adabre especially could not hide their joy and excitement when one of the boleholes was handed over to them.

“The water our community used before the construction of the bolehole was bad,” the Chief of Anom Adabre, Nana Kwaku Fori, said.

“We are happy because our people previously travelled long distances in search of wholesome water just to quench our thirst,” he said.