The Sigma Mu Sigma Borehole Project in Ghana

Please join members of various chapters of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.  to raise funds for various communities in Ghana as part of the Ghana Sigmas' signature service project. 

The effort is called "The Sigma Water for Life Borehole Project in Ghana." The mission is to create fresh drinking water for the local people in local villages that currently do not have access to any, without having to travel long distances and can only get as much as they can carry at one time. 

A little background on the town we launched our first Borehole in February 2020:

Afrokrotia is located in the Eastern Region, a part of the Akwamufie township. It has over 500 people and is surrounded by other smaller townships. The people in this small community are mostly farmers and fishery workers at the nearby Volta Lake. Many of this town's inhabitants fetch water from nearby rivers and streams that are tributaries of the Volta Lake. These streams are heavily polluted with industrial waste as well as contaminants. To access clean water most make the 7km walk to Akwamufie and other areas with piped water. The journey to these points hinder the children from attending classes on time and doing their homework. It also forces the community to fetch water from the contaminated streams causing waterborne diseases.

The locals also have no public toilet serving the whole community. This situation forces most people to use the nearby bushes and refuse dumps as places of convenience, this goes to affect the overall hygiene of the area.  The most major concern, however, is the lack of portable drinking water for the community which has prompted an overflow of patients at the local clinic for illnesses such as cholera and diarrhea which can be fatal for children.

The village has approached the government and local corporate bodies for aid but none have been able to assist them up to date.  The impact of the project will be to promote economic growth, reduce poverty, eliminate total waterborne diseases in the community and to improve the community health situation. The expected outcomes of creating a borehole in Afrokrotia are to particularly improve health sanitation conditions among the people of Afrokrotia and to provide portable drinking water for them. 

Below are pictures from where people fetch their drinking water from today, as well as pictures of a borehole being done in a neighboring community for this borehole project, and a completed site that Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. completed in 2019.

Any little bit you can give will help us make a major impact in this land as we can build up to two more new boreholes when we hit our goal.  Thank you in advance for your contribution! 


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                                                                                              A borehole in progress


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Commissioning of a new Borehole by Omega Psi Phi (Ghana Ques); Ghana Sigmas have done the same in the spirit of Culture for Service & Service for Humanity to expand this initiative to more communities nationwide.