I’m a proudly-married father and also somewhat of a globetrotter. Some time ago, I spent a couple of weeks in Ghana and befriended an up-and-coming NGO called Bak2Afrika . And as a Friend of Bak2Afrika, I have pledged to help them with this campaign.

It centers around Apetewusu, a small, remote village located in Ghana’s Eastern Region. Such localities usually have issues when it comes to accessing basic amenities, and so it is with Apetewusu. In fact, the villagers lack access to the most basic amenity of all - water.

Due to rainfall being seasonal and the village’s well dilapidated and inconsistent, residents go most of year without water to bathe, cook, etc. It will be a long time, perhaps decades, before the Ghanaian government gets around to extending pipes into a community this distant and obscure. The villagers are forced to harvest water from rain or a nearby stream. But to reiterate, rainfall is sporadic and furthermore nonexistent during the dry season, when the stream also stops flowing.

That’s why we have pledged to help Apetewusu by digging a proper borehole, one deep enough to fetch water regardless of what time of year it is, by relying on underground reserves. These villagers are on the lowest end of the economic spectrum, also being devoid of electricity for instance.

So utilizing the services Hydroterramics, a borehole-drilling company based in Accra, we have set about raising funds for the aforementioned borehole, complete with a modern, Indian Mark II handpump. And the silver lining when it comes to assisting underprivileged people in the Third World is doing so being a relatively-inexpensive endeavor.

Thank you for your time.