HiChale, a non-governmental organization in the Savannah Region, has provided 5 boreholes for 5 communities at Kalba in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district.

This is in fulfillment of its quest to improve the accessibility of clean water for rural dwellers within the Kalba enclave.

The beneficiary communities include Kelleyiri, Kporiju Primary School, Kohiitee, Bugal, and Bebeyiri.

The aim of this project is to provide underground water to over 2000 beneficiaries in these communities with potable drinking water.

According to the NGO's Managing Director, Mr. Emmanuel Dery Kuusani, HiChale remains committed to providing interventions that will help alleviate the suffering of the most neglected people and communities.

He added that the main funders of HiChale projects are their German partners: Aktionskreis Pater Hagen Association, which is into the collection of paper and used clothing to raise funds, and Ruet n Rock Association, which organizes musical events to also raise funds to support these projects.

Mr. Kuusani used the opportunity to call for more donors and collaborators to enable them to expand their reach and impact to benefit more communities.

In response to this gesture, there has been a massive show of excitement amongst the beneficiary communities, with some of them indicating how they have struggled over the years to get a borehole until HiChale came to their rescue.

Background:

HiChale is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that was formed in March 2023 from a church-based partnership between the people of Kalba Parish and their friends from Altenberge-Erika in Germany through a Catholic missionary, Rev. Father Hagen (of blessed memory).

The NGO seeks to continue with the vision of this partnership, which has over the past four decades financed hundreds of developmental projects in the Kalba area.

These projects include, but are not limited to, healthcare support, including the only healthcare center in Kalba Zone; educational support in terms of building schools; water supply as in the provision of boreholes and dams; social support to the needy in the form of basic needs; and sponsorship of students, among others.

The HiChale NGO has been formed to continue this development agenda not only in Kalba but also now in Funsi in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region, through collaboration with the popular female Ghanaian artiste, Wiyaala.