Global Host Project (GHP), an NGO, has cut the sod for the construction of a 10-seater toilet facility worth GH¢ 23,000 for a settler fishing community at Duakor, near the University of Cape Coast.
GHP initiated the project as part of its social responsibility towards deprived rural communities in the Central Regional.
Mr Odua Kwesi Sampson, Country Director of GHP, said the NGO was founded in 2008 with the aim of promoting developmental projects by constructing useful social amenities to communities where they operate.
He said, apart from building the toilet facility for the Duakor community, plans were far advanced to build identical projects in Ahenborboi, Okyeso and Abakam.
Mr Sampson said his outfit would donate computers to basic schools that serve the communities of Duakor Ahenborboi, Okyese and Abakam, adding that St Monica’s Girls School in Cape Coast would also be provided with some computers.
He said a volunteer would be arriving from the USA in June to install and repair computers at the Junior High Schools in the area and that, the long term goal of GHP was to build a computer centre to cater for Duakor and its surrounding communities.
He noted that ICT was the future of the youth and for any nation to progress, it was imperative for its youth to be abreast with its know-how, and urged other NGOs to assist the four communities since they lacked a lot of social amenities.
Mr Francis Apedo, assembly member of the area, commended GHP for the prompt response to their appeal and gave the assurance that, the community would give the project the needed support to ensure its early completion.
He said Duakor, Abakam , Ahenborboi and Okyeso which are all settler communities along the Cape Coast- Elmina Highway, lacked a lot of facilities including potable water, toilet facilities, insufficient refuse containers, deplorable link roads, drainage systems, leaking school roof, electricity, computers labs , furniture for lower primary school and kindergarten; and also a community centre.
Mr Apedo said, as a result of the lack of toilet facilities and in sufficient refuse containers, the communities experience increased diarrhea and cholera cases as inhabitants eased themselves at the beaches.
The chief of the area, Togbe Ayivi II, commended both the assembly member and the GHP for their efforts at providing the community with a toilet facility, saying that, the lack of such facilities had resulted in needless deaths.
He pledged to give the project the needed support to ensure it was completed on schedule, whilst he called on other NGOs to come to the aid of the community.**
Source: GhanaWeb
