The Royal Bank Foundation has commissioned 12 boreholes valued GH¢ 300,000 for some selected communities in the Northern Region of Ghana to avert water crisis and diseases.
Some beneficiary communities include Gyamtutu, Kukuo, Makango, Gambaga, Gbintiri, Nalerigu Atabiya, Wulugu, Katejili, Kitare, Kokonagye, and Mbowura, located at various districts of the Northern Region.
The Vice President, Marketing Research & Corporate Affairs of TRB Foundation, Dr Kwame Baah-Nuakoh, said the founder of the bank, Alhaji Adamu Iddrisu, tasked the bank to provide 60 communities with boreholes.
According to him, the bank has so far in the last 18 months provided more than 100 boreholes to other communities.
Dr Baah-Nuakoh stated that the bank was yet to open an office in the Northern Region, but was already performing their corporate social responsibility to the communities in the region.
He stated that the bank collaborates with the Community Water & Sanitation (CWS) to assist them with communities that are in need of water, then the bank assists the communities.
The Chief of Gbintiri, Ubor Jabab Wajak, thanked the TRB Foundation for providing the communities with potable water and promised that he and his people would take good care of the boreholes.
He, however, appealed to other banks, institutions, government and philanthropists to assist the community with a senior high school, a clinic and more boreholes to augment the community’s increasing number.
A community member, Danjuma, on behalf of the community members, expressed their appreciation to the TRB Foundation for coming to their aid.
According to him, they previously travelled five miles to get access to water “and even the water we get, we share with animals at the dam. This kind of water when you drink it you would definitely get sick because it is polluted by the animals.”
He explained that efforts by the community members to get the assembly to provide them with potable water proved futile.
“We entreat the bank to establish a branch in our community so that we will do business together since we are close to the Togo border,” he mentioned.
FROM Eric Kombat, East Mamprusi