He made this call on Friday 3rd March 2023 at a water and sanitation (WATSAN) committees workshop held at Ejisu.The Family Support Lifeline (FASUL) organized the annual training workshop for water and sanitation (WATSAN) committees in local communities across the Ashanti Region where FASUL operates on Friday 3rd March 2023 at Ejisu. The WATSAN training workshop has become an annual flagship program of FASUL with the objective of equipping local WATSAN committees and caretakers with management and sustainability skills on water wells/boreholes in their respective communities.

This year, the workshop was designed to increase the knowledge and expertise, confidence, skills, and teamwork among WATSAN committee members and to enable them to be abreast with best practices on new ways of handling water and sanitation problems in their respective communities. Consistent with FASUL’s operations and maintenance plans while ensuring sustainability of existing water facilities, FASUL collaborated with local governments in which the local communities are located, namely, the Ejisu Municipal and Ahafo Ano Southwest District Assemblies, both in the Ashanti Region. As such, the Environmental Health and Sanitation Department and Planning Office of Ejisu Municipal Assembly as well as the Social Development Department of the Ahafo-Ano South-West District provided the key resource persons to facilitate the program. The resource persons (including Messrs. Ali Sulemana, Planning Officer, and Ernest Agyei, Environmental Health and Sanitation Officer, both of Ejisu Municipal Assembly and Mr. Isaac Osei Wireko, Senior Social Development Officer, Ahafo-Ano South-West District) focused on topics related to the roles and responsibilities of WATSAN committees, community involvement, financial management and accountability, maintenance of water wells as well as general hygiene and sanitation. The Director of FASUL, Dr. Alexander Eduful, also facilitated a section on ‘experience sharing and revenue mobilization’.

Participants came from Juabenba, Krofoum, Tetekaaso, Abesewase, Nkyerepoaso, Afraku, Nkansakrom, and Kokodie communities, all in the Juaben District. Others included Manhyia, Korase, Old-Krapa, and Banso in the Ejisu Municipal Assembly and Abesua and Bonkwaso No. 2 from the Ahafo Ano Southwest District. The FASUL staff who facilitated the organization of the program included the Director, Dr. Alexander Eduful, the Project Coordinator, Mr. Ignatus Kpobi Ndemole, the FASUL Accountant, Mr. Benjamin Adu Agyei and Research Assistants, Ms. Priscilla Tawiah Ampratwum and Ms. Pearl Nkorngui Woedem.

With the support of its Chicago partners, the Kiphart Foundation, the Center for Global Health (CGH) of the Biological Sciences Division and the Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development (KCGHSD) at the Crown School, both of the University of Chicago  FASUL remains committed to enhancing quality lives among underserved communities in Ghana through the provision of essential support services in the areas water and sanitation, education, health and social development. The organization of the annual training workshop is, therefore, in furtherance of this overarching objective.

Ayekoo! to FASUL and the International Partners