Supreso (ER), Nov. 15, GNA - An $8,050 water project had been inaugurated at Supreso in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District at the weekend. Mr Isaac Olesu-Adjei, National Programmes Officer of the Hunger Project who inaugurated the facility, said it was a partnership between the Supreso Epicentre, The Hunger Project-Ghana (THP-Ghana) and Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central.

He said when the Supreso Epicentre building was completed last year the health personnel were reluctant to move into the nurses' quarters and to work at the clinic due to the absence of water and electricity. He said the inauguration of the water project would therefore bring relief to the health workers and the people.

Mr Olesu-Adjei expressed appreciation to the Rotary Club for accepting to co-fund the project and expressed the hope that the partnership would be sustained to ensure that the support was extended to 18 remaining epicentres currently without water supply.

He appealed to the communities within the Supreso Epicentre to see the facility as theirs, which they would use and maintain without having to fall on Rotary again to help with minor repairs.

"You have to prove that your association with The Hunger Project has resulted in a change of your mindset from being dependent and self-reliant communities".

Ms Sophia Twum-Barimah, President of Rotary Club, Accra Ring Road Central, said in a speech read on her behalf that the project was intended to provide clean drinking water to about 150 people at Supreso and surrounding communities who frequent the Epicentre building for medical, education and banking needs as well as food storage and processing.

The project comprises a borehole connected to a 7,000-liter water tank with a submersible pump and a generator to serve the Epicentre building. Ms Twum-Barima said with the facility, water-borne diseases in the area would be reduced.