WORLD VISION Ghana International, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating in several districts of Ghana, after a careful profile of the Bongo District, opened an Area Development Programme (ADP) in the district in 1996.
The profile of the Bongo District revealed severe malnutrition, high maternal and child mortality rates, about 70% illiteracy rate and lack of credit and farm inputs to boost agriculture among other several developmental challenges.
Due to this situation the World Vision Ghana, under the sponsorship of Markus and Fabienne Friedli, special donors from Switzerland, has commissioned a hospital Staff House for the Bongo District Hospital, and a Catering Facility for the Bongo Resource Centre.
The intentions are to encourage health professionals posted to the Bongo district, to accept to go to the area, and to also facilitate the learning of the students pursuing catering at the Bongo Resource Centre.
The Bongo Area Development Programme (ADP) Manager, Mrs. Benedicta Pealore, commended the organisation for acting swiftly to the aid of Bongo.
She said the people of Bongo were the best judges of the impacts of World Vision activities in the area, and urged the community members to exercise a high sense of maintenance culture for the projects.
Naba Baba Salifu Alemyaarum, Paramount Chief of the Bongo Traditional Area, late last year recognised the immense contributions of World Vision, and gave three of their leading personalities local traditional chieftaincy titles as “Amalitinga”, “Magazea” and “Amalibongo”. He was full of praise to the NGO for helping him develop his area.
The Bongo District Chief Executive, Mr. Clement Akugri Atiah, recounted the activities of the NGO in the area, and announced that the Resource Center would be taken on board the District Development Plan, and that the assembly would provide a budget allocation for the maintenance and sustenance of the facility.
In a speech read for him, the Regional Health Director, Dr. Koku Awoonor-Williams, emphasised that in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it was important that suitable health personnel were brought to the doorsteps of the people.
This demands adequate accommodation, which he emphasised, must be realised from an effective private-public partnership, and announced that the district would soon get additional hospital staff accommodation from the Ministry of Health.
A seven-member Board of Governors was inaugurated to oversee the smooth administration of the institutions established, so as to measure their impacts.
There were solidarity messages from students of the Resource Centre, men, and women of the district. Gifts were also presented to the visiting team of World Vision.
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