In my 2014 blog, I posted about Krobo Girls School - Always Shining - so I refer you to that post.
Krobo has about 2,000 girls that attend school and live on the campus. Krobo is a high school level institution built on the top and side of a mountain and has along history being founded by missionaries - again way back in the day!
We have really wanted to and still want to put a LWW system at Krobo. Krobo has been challenged by not having adequate raw water supply. Although they have 3 bore holes - all three do not have sufficient flow at this point.
However, while we were at Krobo Rev Asante called the hydrologist that drilled the bore holes. The hydrologist recommend not just drilling the hole holes but to allow the drilling to create hydro-fracking which in turn creates better flow. Krobo chose to only drill. So there is some potential for good a good source of raw water.
Krobo today feels like Kibi CoE 3 years ago. I think (hope) with Rev Asante's leadership we can get the right things in line at Krobo to where the girls can have access to clean water. Right now, not all the girls can afford to buy water and not all the girls that can afford to buy water can afford to buy it all the time - so a lot of the student population is in & out of drinking clean (hopefully) water through out the year.
Lastly, the lavatories at Krobo are not plumbed with water - which means the girls have to take a bucket of water with them to put the water in the toilet to flush (look at last year's blog about Kibi, it was the same situation until Idlewild purchased a water tank for the girls dormitory and Michael plumbed the tank to the toilets). So, yesterday Chalmers said 50 times "boys we got to fix this...."! I hope we can.
Its not simple to fix water problems here in Ghana - there are the challenges we can see, i.e. Need money, need to drill & frack to trap the water, need committed Ghanaians like Michael, Charles, & Rev Asante - but there are problems we can see or need to allow some time to pass. What makes one believe is to have been at Kibi COE yesterday morning and see the 11 20L bottle dispensers, see the water tank that now feeds the lavatories in the girls dorm, see that almost all the small water bottles have been distributed, and hear the Kibi water committee talk of their progress in the past year and their vision to begin help the greater Kibi community over the next year.
It was wash day for "some"of the students at Krobo yesterday - picture should give you some level of the complexities..
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