From Ishaque Agyei
A US-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), which has its affiliates in Ghana and other parts of Africa, the United Charity Endowment Fund of Africa (UCEFF), has supported four communities in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem District.
The communities Abaka-Ano, Ankwanda, Nyamebekyere and Abayee have suffered shortage of water for a couple of years, and their inhabitants have to cover several miles to fetch stream water, which would have adverse health implications.
The communities share their only source of water from a stream with animals, amid the washing of vehicles and the washing of clothes.
In an interview with The Chronicle, Mr. Kojo Opoku Wood, Country Director of UCEFF, noted that the organisation, which begun operations and registered in 2004, had embarked on several developmental projects in the region.
He said even though the organisation had the aim of providing clean and potable drinking water to Ghanaian communities, education was also an important area which the UCEFF had taken into consideration.
Mr. Wood stressed that the organisation has putting up a free skills training centre to train dressmaking, carpentry, artisans, baking and other vocations to better the lives of the people in the area.
He mentioned plastering, roofing and the refurbishing of headmasters’ offices in some schools in the area, as several ongoing projects the organisation was embarking on in the communities.
Mr. Wood added that public schools in the Amoanda and Ankwanda communities had also benefitted from the distribution of textbooks, pens, pencils and other learning materials.
The items donated to support the four communities in the KEEA District .
Some of the Donated Items
Mr. Kojo Opoku Wood, Country Director of UCEFF