SUPRISO-SUHUM GETS POTABLE WATER (PAGE 20, DEC 1)

THE Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central, in partnership with the Hunger Project has constructed an $8,050 water project at Supriso in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District of the Eastern Region.
The Supriso Epicentre Water Project, which comprises a borehole connected to a 7,000-litre water tank with a submersible pump and a generator, is to provide clean drinking water for 150 residents of the area and surrounding villages.
Members of the beneficiary communities frequent the epicentre building for their health care services, education, banking services as well as food storage and processing facilities.
The Supriso Epicentre of the Hunger Project supports villages surrounding the epicentre and is aimed at ensuring food security and enabling them to emerge from abject poverty within five years.
In an address read on her behalf at the inaugural ceremony of the project, the President of the Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central, Nana Okyerewaa Asiedu-Addo, said the provision of clean water would drastically reduce the incidence of water-borne diseases and enable young girls to engage in productive ventures instead of walking long distances to fetch unsafe water on a daily basis.
According to her, the construction of the facility was made possible through the support of the Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Clubs of Accra Ring Road, Rotary Club of Wakiki and other partners
The National Programmes Officer of the THP, Mr Isaac Olesu-Adjei, said until the completion of the Supriso Epicentre Building in 2008, health personnel were reluctant to move into the nurses’ quarters and work at the clinic due to the absence of potable water and electricity.
He noted that before the construction of the water project, the nurses were operating under difficult conditions and, therefore, expressed happiness that the provision of clean water would be a relief to the health workers and people in the community.
“The provision of clean water is consistent with THP’s aim of supporting partner communities to meet the Millennium Development Goals”, Mr Olesu-Adjei stated.
For their part, Messrs Samuel F. Kwarbi and Frederick Opare-Ansah, the District Chief Executive for the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District and the MP for the area respectively, commended the Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central for the support given to the people. They urged the beneficiary communities to take good care of the facility to enable them derive the intended benefits.