World Vision Ghana has said every year it spends about $20 million in the country to help improve the standards of living of the vulnerable. He said people who benefit from the programmes are in remote areas.
Integrated Programmes Director, Nii Okai Okai, speaking at the launch of 40 years of being in Ghana told Adom News that 40 years that they had been in the country, they have built schools, health facilities and trained health officials and teachers, provided potable water, sanitation and WASH programmes among others.
“We work at places
where a lot of non-governmental organisations are not willing to go,” he said.
Mr Okai said his
outfit played a major role in elimination of guinea worm in Ghana in the 1980s.
“As a Christian organisation,
we take the risk and go to places where people are not willing to go and
provide the necessary help to those in that area,” Mr Okai said.
The Programmes
Director explained that wherever they go, they work in collaboration with
government institutions and experts in that community.
“A lot has been achieved in our 40 years, but we still have more to be done in the years ahead of us,” he noted.
Mr Okai added that
because they work in collaboration with government agencies, they find it
difficult to operate in areas where government structures and systems are weak.
“Areas and districts
where government mechanisms are weak, we are not able to get the full support
to work in those areas and have to fall on the regions to be able to do
whatever we want to do,” he said.
Mr Okai is pleading
with the government to ensure her systems and structures work in all areas to
enable non-governmental organisations like World Vision to do more for the
vulnerable to improve the conditions of living in deprived areas.
Source: Adomonline.com | Adom News | Kwame Kulenu
