HOPE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS SUPPORTS SCHOOL WATER AND SANITATION IN ATWEREBOANDA AND OBRAWOGUM D/A SCHOOL.

On 14th and 20th May 2009, Hope for Future Generations, a community based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) donated water and sanitation facilities to Atwereboanda and Obrawogum D/A Schools in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region.

The donation is part of school based water and sanitation project aimed at promoting good hygiene and improved water and sanitation among school children. The project, dubbed ‘Simavi Sanitation project’ is sponsored by SIMAVI of the Netherlands and implemented by Hope for Future Generations.

At Atwereboanda D/A School, the Executive director of Hope for Future Generations Mrs. Cecilia Lodonu-Senoo, presented 40 veronica buckets, 80 hand-washing bowls and 200 drinking cups and 20 dust bins to the school.

She tasked the teachers and students to make good use of the items in order to promote good hygiene and sanitation behavior and ultimately improve good health and to reduce absenteeism among our future generations.

Receiving the items on behalf of the school, the headmaster, Mr. Kofi Krah expressed his profound appreciation at the kind gesture done his school. He promised to see to it that those materials are put to effective use to serve the intended purpose.

At Obrawogum D/A School, the Project Coordinator, Mr. Charles Kassah, in collaboration with the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Director of Education and the District Education Sanitation Personnel presented same quantity of items to the school.

Presenting the items, Mr. Charles Kassah said the kind gesture was aimed at helping to eliminate the spread of water and sanitation related diseases among school pupils and teachers.

The District Director of Education for the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District, Mr. Isaac Amonoo, who received the items and handed them over to the school, said the donation is in a very positive direction.

He thanked the coordinator and Hope for Future Generations and appealed to them to replicate such gestures in the rest of the schools in the district to promote good health and enhance proper sanitation. He further implored other NGOs to emulate the examples being set by Hope for future Generations in the district.

The Assembly member, Hon. Kojo Buabeng was particularly grateful for the donation. He said the donation was timely and positive direction. He added that he was committed to mobilizing his people for any communal work for any project that would be visited on his electoral area.

In his closing remarks, the project coordinator stated that Hope for Future Generations is currently building separate KVIP toilet facilities for both boys and girls and hand dug wells in both schools to promote good water and sanitation and reduce school children walking long distances to fetch water.

The facilities, according to him, have a total estimated cost of Forty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢40,000). He therefore charged the people of these communities to increase their communal spirit to help complete the project on time.

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