Bulenga U/W, June 28, GNA - The Adventist

Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), an NGO, has

provided 212 household latrines and thirty-three hand-dug

wells and boreholes to a number of communities throughout

the upper West Region, since 2002. The facilities, which were provided with funding from the

United USAID at a cost of 6.9 billion cedis was undertaken

under the water and sanitation component of ADRA's

programme. Speaking at ADRA-Ghana Environmental Sanitation

Awards Day held at Bulenga in the Wa East District of the

upper West Region, Mr Sampson Bediako Fordjour, Field

Project Officer of ADRA-Ghana said that, any attempt in

reducing poverty without cognisance of the importance of the

improvement on water and sanitation, was likely to fail, hence

the provision of the facilities. In all, six communities in the Wa municipality and Wa

East District, which were adjudged the clean communities,

were presented with awards made up of sanitation tools. Goripie community in the Wa East District was adjudged

the cleanest with Gundayiri and Bulenga taking the second

and third places respectively. Busa community in Wa municipality was also adjudged

the cleanest community with Biihee and Jonga following in

that order. They were presented with sanitation tools such as

wheelbarrows, Shovels. Dustbins and rakes among others. Bulenga Local Authority Primary School was adjudged

the first in the basic school category. In an address read on his behalf, Mr Ambrose Dery,

Upper West Regional Minister commended ADRA-Ghana for

its interventions in rural areas, which he said would go a long

way to ameliorate poverty among the rural people.