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Tamale, Ghana – Executive Director of Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation (GSF), Fati Alhassan, has asked community leaders in the Northern Region to come together and make good use of water tanks provided by their district assemblies for water storage during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to her, although government through the district assembly was no longer providing them with potable water due to a recession of the pandemic, chiefs and assembly members could still put such facilities to good use for the benefit their communities.
Madam Fati who recently toured some communities in the region including Sanserigu and Wamale to present relief items to vulnerable groups, said following the discontinuation of supply of potable water to the people at their doorsteps, the water tanks had been left standing without being use.
“…communities can contribute to mechanise these water tanks. They just have to buy some few pipelines and connect them to the water tanks and source of water so that they can continue to get water. Government has given many resources…individuals and organisations have given resources because of covid-19 but some of the communities are not using them”, she told journalists during a briefing on Friday in Tamale.
With support from the Huairou Commission and the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), GSF presented soap, hand sanitisers, facemasks, veronica buckets, mobile phones and liquid soap to women accused of witchcraft, persons living with mental illness and the aged.
Through the Huairou Commission support, about 500 people were reached with relief support whereas about 300 people were given support through support from NETRIGHT.
“We made sure that each community we visited in Yendi and Gushegu to be specific, everybody gets something. If you’re given soap, you don’t get liquid soap…if you’re given a hand sanitizer, you don’t get a facemask. So at least everybody got something”, Madam Fati explained.
Grassroots Sisterhood Foundation (GSF) is a non-profit organisation based in Tamale in the Northern Region. The organisation works with rural women and their communities in the region where poverty and inequality are still very pervasive.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Philip Liebs
