It was normally a herculean activity for pupils of the Saabisi Major College at Nagtugnia in the Upper East Area, to fetch drinking water for handwashing and for the school’s kitchen area just before the days’ classes start off.
The closest borehole was about a kilometer away and this typically resulted in their lateness to course or their lack of concentration in the course of lessons since they grew to become weary after fetching the h2o.
Now, they heave a sigh of aid as a philanthropist has presented the faculty a new mechanized borehole.
The philanthropist, James Ali Griesbaum is a native of Natugnia who migrated from the group when he was a boy or girl to Burkina Faso and later on to Germany.
He is now a profits agent and after 25 a long time absent from the place, has returned property to give back to his neighborhood.
James Ali Griesbaum has drilled and mechanised a borehole for the Saabisi Principal College, to enable reduce the plight of the pupils as they often struggled to get water for the School or even to drink.
“I keep in mind what it was like, going to search for water when I was a youngster rising up in this group. We walked underneath the sizzling temperature virtually 40 degrees and it was not easy”, Ali explained incorporating “So now if I have the prospect to give h2o, I have to support [the community]”
The Saabisi Most important College presently has a population of 425 pupils.
The university is less than the Ghana Faculty Feeding Application which tends to make the mechanized borehole really crucial, specifically in this era of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hitherto, pupils in the Higher Main level of the faculty usually went to fetch water from the local community borehole positioned virtually a kilometer away from the university.
“We applied to go and battle with the neighborhood [members] in buy to get h2o for our cooks to prepare dinner meals for us to try to eat. And it normally usually takes [us] quite extended but now, this h2o is listed here so they can generally just fetch and cook”, Clemencia Alukre, a Class 6 pupil of the faculty instructed Pleasure News.
A further Class 6 pupil, Khadijatu Suleman – Mahmud reported “[At] 1st, we utilized to go considerably absent to get drinking water to drink so the borehole will assistance us a whole lot. We can normally get drinking water to wash our arms with soap just before eating”.
Headmaster of the Saabisi Main Faculty, Benjamin Ageemina reported college management had a difficult time running the pupils with regard to the covid – 19 protocols, since handwashing is a incredibly vital factor of the protocols. But that was now a thing of the earlier.
He used to opportunity to phone on other philanthropists to assist the school with home furnishings due to the fact 50 percent of the pupils of the faculty did have accessibility to furnishings.
“We are captivating to anybody that will be touched to get us furnishings and renovate our lover key block for us. There are no chairs in the full lower key block and the small children sit on the flooring for classes and it is very difficult”, the headmaster reported.
The main and elders of the Natugnia local community who joined James Ali Griesbaum to fee the borehole for the Saabisi Most important Faculty, ended up entire of joy and expressed their gratitude to the philanthropist for his gesture.
Assemblyman for the region, Moses Alemya explained the mechanised borehole was not only heading to provide the university but some areas of the local community as properly.
“Our brother has arrive to the help of not just the college, but the total local community simply because accessibility to potable water is a important dilemma here”, he stated.
James Ali Griesbaum has also assured the individuals of Natugnia that he will do extra to assistance the neighborhood in the in the vicinity of upcoming.