Water Project for Rural Communities in Northern Ghana

Availability of and accessibility to portable water is a guarantee for the healthy living of deprived and impoverished people. Unfortunately, many of such people do not have access to clean water for drinking and other domestic uses. Most of them rely on streams and dams which are often polluted and shared with animals. Besides, they are often far from the community, mostly between 2 to 5 kilometres.

With this, women and children suffer as they walk such distances to fetch unclean water. In these communities, lateness to and absenteeism from school is common with the girl-child.
To help solve these problems, the WHSF has identified some deprived and poor communities in the Yendi Municipality where access to portable water is a critical life saving issue, and is therefore seeking funding support from philanthropic individuals and organisations to provide mechanised boreholes for the identified communities.