Ho Central MP provides mechanised borehole for Housing M.A. Basic School

The Member of Parliament for Ho Central, Richmond Edem Kpotosu, has provided a mechanised borehole facility for Housing M.A. Basic School in Ho.

The project, financed with the MP's share of the Common Fund, ended era of water scarcity at the school.

The provision of the GH¢75,000 borehole facility is part of an initiative aimed at ensuring that all schools and health facilities in the area have uninterrupted access to potable water.

Mr Kpotosu indicated that the project also stems from an objective to promote sanitation by ensuring that children have access to water to enable them to observe good hygiene and menstrual practices.

“Our girls, during their monthly cycles, they will have water to use after changing. Same way for the boys, after using the washroom, you come back; you have to wash your hands. And it is a way of keeping yourselves clean so that Y i u do not introduce any foreign or harmful materials into your system.”,

He further indicated that learners would now spend ample time in the classroom and concentrate on their studies, unlike previously, when they had to use academic hours looking for water outside the school community.

He said that funds would be directed towards the construction of similar facilities in the communities of Akoefe Gadza, Klave and Ave, bringing the total to five boreholes in the current phase.

“When the five are done for this phase, as we go on we will see the number that I can also work on for the next phase. We will be doing it one after the other, then slowly, slowly, the CHPS and school will have water to use”, he added.

He entreated the school’s management to adopt good maintenance practices to prolong the lifespan of the facility.

The headmistress of Housing Municipal Assembly Basic School, Gifty Amedzi, appreciated the MP’s efforts to overcome one of the school’s biggest challenges, emphasising how the initiative would support academic activities.

“Construction of this project has solved a lot of our problems and I think it will go along way to create a conducive environment for us for academic work to go on. I want to assure the MP that we will maintain it very well”, she said.