Ahansoyewodea assisted with borehole and water facilities
Team CSR, a local non governmental organisation that assesses the needs of communities and seeks sponsorship from institutions to help them, has in collaboration with Chase Petroleum, a bulk oil distribution company, drilled a mechanised borehole for the people of Ahansonyewodea in the Obuasi Municipality in the Ashanti Region.
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Ahansonyewodea is a farming community in the Obuasi Municipality that has challenges with potable water and good roads.
Some time ago, AngloGold Ashanti, a mining giant, provided the community with pipe-borne water, but it has proven to be inadequate over time. Worse still, any time the water does not flow, the people have to walk long distances in search of water.
The Managing Director of Chase Petroleum, Mr Dan Amoah, at a ceremony to inaugurate the facility, said it was the company’s plan to share its gains with communities that had special needs and had also contributed to the growth of the company.
“Our attention is concentrated on the health and water sectors as well as providing social amenities in the areas of sports and education," he said.
Mr Amoah said several communities in the Northern and Brong Ahafo regions had also been provided with borehole facilities in the past.
In addition to the provision of a mechanised borehole for Ahansonyewodea, the company also put up a KVIP toilet facility for the only school in the community, the Owusu Sempa Basic School. The school, established about 50 years ago, has been without a toilet facility.
Mr Amoah said the company was motivated to provide the sanitary facility for the school following the recent cholera outbreak that hit certain parts of the country.
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"We are providing this KVIP facility to improve hygienic condition in the school and in order that the health of the school children may be safeguarded," he said. The two projects together cost about GH¢100,000.
The Chief of Ahansonyewodea, Nana Ntisem Ababio, expressed his appreciation to the company and Team CSR for their assistance to the community and the school. He singled out Team CSR for special praise for bringing the needs of the community to the attention of Chase Petroleum.
The headmaster of the school, Mr Joseph Ayeebo, also expressed his appreciation to Chase Petroleum for the assistance. He said it would go a long way to reduce truancy in the school and explained that because there was no toilet facility in the school previously, teachers found it difficult controlling pupils who left the school under the guise of attending to the call of nature.
He said such pupils hardly returned and others who used the bush were on a number of occasions bitten by snakes.