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Recently, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided data suggesting that, Ghana has made progress in safe water access at national level with an improvement in water supply to 80 percent of the population. B ut in the Ho West District of the Volta Region, a community is at risk to waterborne diseases as residents rely on a dirty pond for their water needs as a result of poverty and neglect. Abutia Amegame, a small farming community, is one of the marginalised rural communities in the Ho enclave of Ghana. It is ‘left behind’ in access to basic facilities particularly clean water and healthcare.   As a contribution to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 6, a borehole was constructed and handed over to the community by the Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Clubs of Accra West, Ho and Rotary Districts 5170, which brought joy and relief to the residents. However, in 2017, it broke-down and since then, the community has been unable to r

With less than a week to the commencement of the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) final year pupils of Akplorfudzi E.P/M.A Basic School say the odds are stuck against them. The 22 BECE candidates of the school, located in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region have raised serious academic and infrastructural concerns which they strongly believe would cause them to perform poorly in the final exam. The thought of writing subjects they have little knowledge about sends constant shivers down their spines. A major concern raised by the distressed students are the lack of computers at an empty room labelled as 'ICT Lab', lack of books at the school’s library and the lack teachers. Sadly, most of the students have never seen even a computer mouse  before. They say they have not even seen a computer before. However,  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is one of the subjects they will be assessed in during BECE to be conducted by the W

Becoming a successful entrepreneur in Ghana is definitely one of the toughest battles as individuals who take up the challenge of setting up their own ventures face one challenge or the other. Many are the times people abandon their dreams of becoming business owners just because someone said to them, “you can’t do it. It’s difficult. You won’t get market for this product” or due to financial limitations. Nonetheless, there are few others who have defied all odds, turned deaf ears to words of discouragement, put their skills to use, kept fighting, until they achieved their goals. 37-year-old Israel Blebo is one of such determined individuals who stood his grounds, developed his skills and has now become a successful entrepreneur. Israel Blebo’s passion for technology is a surety that Ghana is set to get another powerful innovator, inventor and technocrat like Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo. With just a certificate in NVTI, the specialist in electronics and