FLOOD-AFFECTED-COMMUNITIES IN KWAHU AFRAM PLAINS IN THE EASTERN REGION OF GHANA RECEIVE RELIEF ITEMS

Caritas Ghana, with support from Hungary Helps, distributed non-food items and cash packages to forty-eight flood-affected households in Kwahu Afram Plains.

These affected households, located in the following riverine communities, Kodidi B and Amankwa-Tornu in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District, and Kwame Dwamena, Asaase Boama, Kwabena Kwahu and Foso in Kwahu Afram Plains South District, were affected by the torrential rains and the water spillage from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso.

Caritas Ghana is grateful to the Hungary Helps for the humanitarian assistance; the Apostolic Vicar of Donkorkrom Apostolic Vicariate, Most Rev. John Alphonse Asiedu, SVD, who accompanied all the distribution trails and did the presentations on behalf of the Church; the Donkorkrom Apostolic Vicariate Distribution Team; the priests who are pastorally overseeing those affected communities, and the focal points in the affected communities.

The beneficiaries, in turn, did express their joy and appreciation to the Church for the unexpected shelter materials (bags of cement and roofing sheets), water-tanks, and cash packages which were donated to them. Particularly, the opinion leaders of Amankwa-Tornu thanked the Church for the replacement of their broken overhead water-tank. Those who had their houses affected by the flood were advised and urged to relocate to a higher and safer ground.