Guinness provides boreholes for northern Ghana communities

March 25, 2008
Story: George Folley Quaye, Wa
GUINNESS Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), under its Water for Life Project, is providing a number of boreholes in rural communities in northern Ghana.
In the first phase, 10 boreholes are currently being drilled, with Poyentanga and Goziiri in the Upper West Region, benefiting from two boreholes each.
The Project Manager of the West Africa Sorghum Value Chain Development (WASVD), Mr Stephen Mwinkaara, announced this when he handed over water filters to sorghum farmers in Wa.
The WASVD represents collaboration between the GGBL, the Common Fund for Commodities and Technoserve.
The implementation of the project, which began in April 2006, has so far assisted more than 3,000 farmers to produce and supply 2,000 metric tonnes of sorghum, valued at GH¢825,000.
According to Mr Nwinkaara, the second phase of the water project would be implemented this year in a number of communities.
He expressed the hope that the boreholes would go a long way to reduce the incidence of water-borne diseases.
Mr Nwinkaara urged the farmers to reciprocate the gesture by taking their farming activities seriously.
The Upper West Regional Minister, Mr George Hickah Benson, thanked the donors for their support to the farmers and took the opportunity to advise the people of the region to go into large-scale sorghum production.