Key-Interact Club Helps Bring Clean Drinking Water to Ghana

In a video shared by Hope for Ghana last week, residents of Avegborlo gathered together to celebrate the arrival of safe, reliable drinking water and to personally thank Pine-Richland High School students and supporters. 

 

The well was funded in part through Pine-Richland’s annual Walk for Water organized by the Key-Interact Club this past May. During the event, students walked a mile around the school track while carrying gallon jugs of water to help them understand the physical challenge many people face daily when access to clean water is limited. Funds raised by students were combined with generous contributions and support from community partners to complete the project.

Key partners included Hope for Ghana, the nonprofit organization overseeing the drilling and installation of the well, as well as Rich-Mar Rotary, Ingomar Living Waters and the Kiwanis Club, whose financial and logistical support helped bring the project to completion. Together, these organizations worked to raise the approximately $5,000 needed to drill more than 300 feet into a clean underground aquifer.

In the video, residents of Avegborlo express how transformative the well is for their village. With the new well now in place, villagers can access clean water close to home.

This project marks the second clean water well in Ghana supported by Pine-Richland students through Walk for Water efforts.

Learn more about the walk from this Pine Creek Journal article from May 20.