The Rotary club of Ho with support from Goil Ghana has provided 10,000-liter water supply, treatment and storage facility for the Taviefe Senior High School in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region.
The school since its inception has had to drink from a nearby stream which dries up during the harmattan season making life unbearable for the students.
Efforts to construct two separate boreholes for the school were unsuccessful. All two previous boreholes were contaminated with metallic particles rendering it unhealthy for consumption.
The Head-teacher of Taviefe Senior High School, Mr Nicholas Amuzu told Citi News the school has struggled for water for a long time.
“When I resumed office, water was our major problem. Fortunately, we had a borehole which was not mechanized but the MP, Benjamin Kpodo came to Mechanize the Borehole for us but we still could not drink it nor cook with it so we had almost given up.
Our students had to spend hours fetching from the stream or we pay so much to buy from the Ghana Water Company for use in the school’s kitchen until the Rotary clubs intervention.”
The GHC.30,000 project includes two 5,000-litre tanks, a treatment plant with a filter media, a booster pump and a fetching point.
The immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Ho, Joseph Dzamesi told Citi News the club was saddened by the impact of the water problem on the academic of the students.
“As we were thinking through our project for the year, our attention was drawn to the situation of the students of Taviefe Senior School in terms of water. Most of them have to go to the town to fetch from a puddle of water.”
“There are boreholes which yield nothing drinkable and that makes it difficult for the children to stay in school. And also for the teachers to stay on campus thereby affecting discipline and ultimately affecting the academic work. We contacted a couple of corporate organisations and fortunately, Goil Ghana came in to support us provide potable water for TASEC and we are all happy about it” Mr Dzamsi Noted.
The school prefect, Atini Castro Abel said the facility will keep them in class and save them from the harmful effects that come with using unsafe water.