‎The Guan and Wa East Districts are set to benefit from several climate-resilient, solar-powered water pumps, alongside initiatives aimed at improving sanitation, access to clean water, and menstrual hygiene management for girls.

These initiatives are being implemented by Plan International Ghana through its Integrated Package for Sustainable Community Development, with a strong focus on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH).

‎‎Now in its second phase, the project will cover 16 communities across the Upper West and Oti Regions, specifically in the Guan and Wa East Districts and is expected to benefit over 14,700 community members.

‎It aims to improve access to and the use of gender-responsive parenting and healthcare services, as well as enhance access to WASH facilities and services, with particular emphasis on supporting the girl child.

‎Speaking at the launch of the program, the Acting Country Director for Plan International Ghana, Frederick Teye Nobi, emphasised that the initiative will go a long way in safeguarding the health, dignity, and growth of children, particularly girls.

“School WASH remains central to our strategy. Our interventions go beyond infrastructure to include creating a safe, dignified learning environment for adolescent girls,” he said

‎In his closing remarks as Chairperson of the launch, the Member of Parliament for Wa East, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, called for further collaborations to reach more vulnerable communities.

“The community dynamics we have in our place are such that if some three or four are left out, it will draw the whole project’s success backwards. And so, we have to think together to see how we can find a way of collaborating to see how they can be carried along, even if not the full rollout of the package, but somehow how we can support them to be carried along,” he said