10 NADOWLI COMMUNITIES TO GET BOREHOLES (PAGE 20)

Story: Chris Nunoo, Nadowli

TEN communities in the Nadowli District in the Upper West Region are to be provided with boreholes as part of measures to solve their perennial water problems and to also improve sanitation in the region.
The beneficiary communities include Bouyiri, Zimbogu, Gbanko, Eale, Loho-Guo and Dunjan.
Known as the Global Water Initiative of the Catholic Relief Service (CRS) the project will include the provision of new boreholes as well as the maintenance of existing ones.
The Nadowli District Chief Executive (DCE), Wing Commander (retd) Eric Dakurah, who made this known, said when the deal was done, the district would begin to manage its own water sources.
Wing Commander Dakurah, who was addressing the first ordinary meeting of the assembly this year at Nadowli, also announced the construction of 240 household latrines under a hygiene and sanitation programme.
Throwing more light on the construction of the household latrines, Mr Dakurah explained that all the beneficiary communities were to contribute 50 per cent of the project cost by way of communal labour, while the Assembly would contribute the remaining 50 per cent.
Touching on the development of education in the district, the DCE said the district was vigorously improving infrastructure and furniture, among other things, to attract more children to the schools in the area.
He commended the District Education Directorate for its efforts at uplifting education in the district, stressing that "the district was ranked first in the region in the 2007 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)."
The Presiding Member of the Assembly, Madam Hycintha Abatu Gyang, charged the Assembly members to endeavour to pay regular visits to their electoral areas to know at first-hand the problems confronting the people.
She also urged them to unite and accommodate one another as they worked to move the district forward.