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US
Ambassador commissions water project at Mabang
Mabang (Ash), July 2, Ghanadot/GNA – Madam Pamela
Bridgewater, outgoing United States (US) Ambassador to
Ghana, on Monday commissioned a 20,000-Ghana cedi water
project for the Mabang Senior High School, at Mabang.
The project, which has come as a big relief to the school,
was funded by the Ahafo-Ano North District Assembly, Otumfuo
Education Fund and the Shiloh Baptist Church in Fredericburg,
USA where Mrs Mary Bridgewater, mother of the Ambassador
worships.
The Assembly dug the borehole for the school, while the
Otumfuo Education Fund mechanized it and the Shiloh Baptist
Church through the USA embassy provided 8,500 dollars for
the distribution of the water to the students’ dormitories
and staff bungalows.
Madam Bridgewater was happy that through partnership, the
Shiloh Baptist Church together with two institutions in
Ghana had made potable water easily accessible to the school
community, adding that the church was committed to assisting
the US embassy in Ghana in its foreign mission activities in
the country.
Nana Eric Agyemang Prempeh, the District Chief Executive,
advised the school to undertake regular monitoring of the
water system and use it judiciously to sustain it.
He told the school authorities not to hesitate to collect
tolls from the community to maintain the facility.
Nana Prempeh announced that the Akwasiase and Mabang Small
Town Water Supply Project estimated to cost 32,840 Ghana
Cedis would soon take-off as bids for the contract were
opened at the Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council on June
18, last month.
Nana Darko Montwi II, Omanhene of Mabang and Miss Faustina
Barden, Headmistress of the school, expressed their
gratitude to the District Assembly, Otumfuo Education Fund
and the Shiloh Baptist Church for making it possible for the
school to overcome the perennial water problem with its
associated academic, sanitation and indiscipline problems.
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