New office for WV commissioned at the cost of GHc152,833

 

Revered Chiefs

New edifice

World Vision Ghana, WV, has commissioned an ultra modern office complex at Sirigu in the Kassena-West District of the Upper East Region at the cost of 152 thousand Ghana Cedis. The provision of the new edifice which has a conference room, 4 offices, 2 washrooms 4 and a centre for children activities will enhance the work of World Vision in the Kassena-Nankana Development Area. Additionally, staff and partners of WV will now have enough space to operate to promote the wellbeing of the poor and marginalized in society, particularly children.   WV since 2008 has been operating in the Kassena-Nankana West District without a permanent office. In view of this Afrikids, a child right NGO extended its hand of friendship by sharing their office with them. However, the provision of the new office complex gives a sigh of relief as staff and partners of WV has for years managed to work with limited space, which undoubtedly affected their work output.  Commissioning the project, the National Director of WV, Charles Hubert, commended management of Afrikids Ghana for their show of partnership. He said WV hopes to contribute to measurable improvement in the wellbeing of over 6 million young men and women and families across 31 districts of the country by 2015. In line with the set objective, WV has improved the lives of poor and needy students through its educational interventions for deprived communities of which Kassena-Nankana is a beneficiary. Through its training support programme, Parent Teacher-Association and School Management Committees, PTA/SMCs  have  become functional and are able to mobilize funds from parents and also engage assemblies and the GES to provide enough  teaching and learning materials for their school. Mr Hubert further stated that his outfit has reached out to about 36 thousand people and households through its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH, Programme. This, he noted, has resulted in households’ water coverage in programme impact area increasing from 58 percent in 2008 to 98 percent as at May 2014. Mr Hubert thanked its development partners including revered chiefs of the area for their invaluable support. Special commendation was given to Chief of Sirigu, Naba Isaac Asinsagbo Mbobo, for providing land for the construction of the office complex. The Kassena-Nankana West DCE, George Nontera, was grateful to WV for transforming the lives of the vulnerable through its project interventions and called for additional support in the area of boreholes. He said the assembly was ready to commit the needed resources for the construction of the boreholes.  The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Daniel Syme with the support of other dignitaries including the Human Resource Director of WV, Nassib Rahhal, later cut the sod to officially commission the project. Also present was the Kassena-Nankana Operational Base Team Leader, Benedicta Pealore among other officials from WV headquarters in Accra.

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