SOTA International donates Borehole to Kwanfinfi Basic School

Kwanfinfi D/A Basic School, located in the Atwima Mponua district of the Ashanti region, has been the second beneficiary of a mechanized borehole provided by SOTA International, an American non-governmental organization. In July 2024, Dr. Kelli Ducloux, the founder of SOTA International, inaugurated a similar borehole in Achiase Wansamere, Atwima Mponua district.

On Tuesday, Dr. Kelli, accompanied by her local associate, Madam Sutherland Adwoa Dawn, presented the school with a mechanized borehole funded by SOTA International for GHc48,000. The donation ceremony was attended by the school's chiefs and elders, School Management committee, Parent Teacher Association, headteacher, and staff.

Dr. Kelli expressed her delight at fulfilling the vision of delivering clean drinking water to enhance the lives of school children and their families in the Ashanti region. Additionally, she presented GHc6,000 raised by her friends in the United States to purchase uniforms for 49 pupils of Kwanfinfi Basic School. Madam Adwoa Dawn, the Executive Director of Bridge-To-Africa Connection (BTAC) and a coordinator of SOTA projects in Ghana, was encouraged by the support from the African American community in the diaspora towards the growth and development of children in Ghana and Africa.

She pledged to work with the Circle of Friends of BTAC to rehabilitate the school buildings, which are currently in a dilapidated state. Nana Frimpong and Nana Abena Serwaa, the regent and Queen mother of the community, respectively, offered foodstuffs, fruits, and a ram as a token of appreciation for SOTA International's initiative.

Mr. Frederick Antwi, the school's headteacher, accepted the GHc6,000 donation on behalf of the institution and assured that the water from the borehole would be maintained for its intended purpose. Sheikh Yussif Abubakar, Chairman of the school's Parent Teacher Association, expressed gratitude to the donor and friends for their timely assistance, emphasizing that the gesture would significantly contribute to improving sanitation and transforming lives.

In related news, Dr. Kelli Ducloux also commissioned and handed over a mechanized borehole to Osei Adutwum Senior High School at Jachie and Sewua D/A 2 Primary school within the Lake Bosomtwe District, each costing GH¢96,000.