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World Vision Ghana has held a folding up ceremony at its Savelugu Area Programme Office after 24 years of service.
For the past 24 years, World Vision Ghana has impacted over 152,398 beneficiaries, comprising 35,101 girls, 33,309 boys, 43,404 women, and 40,874 men with interventions in sectors such as water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), Primary Healthcare and Nutrition, education, community and child-led advocacy, and child protection and sponsorship programming in the Savelugu Area Programme in the Savelugu municipality of the Northern Region.
The programme, since its inception, has seen World Vision Ghana invest approximately $2,673,278 (GH¢37,425,392) to support the most vulnerable children and their communities.
National Director at World Vision Ghana Laura Cristina Delvalle, speaking at the closing ceremony of the Savelugu Area Programme stated “that lives of many children have been transformed through World Vision Ghana’s interventions in safe water provision, and as of today, a total of 107 boreholes and 10 limited mechanised safe water systems have been provided, serving over 56,000 people directly and over 152,000 indirectly in the area programme”.
“The provision of these safe water systems contributed strongly to improved sanitation and hygiene behaviours among children and families within the area programme.
“The intervention of World Vision accounts for the reduction in the prevalence of diarrhoea cases among children under age five (5) from 28% in 2017 to 6.44% in 2022 and households using improved sanitation facilities moving from 26% in 2017 to 30.44% in 2022 (WVG, TP Evaluation Report, 2022),” she added.
The National Director expressed gratitude to both the people and chiefs of the municipality for their support throughout their journey.
“I am delighted to join you today as we officially close the Savelugu Area Programme after 24 years of investments in critical sectors in selected communities in the Savelugu Municipality and parts of Nanton District.”
The Chief of Zugu Traditional Area, Professor Naa Yakubu Nantogmah, expressed gratitude to World Vision Ghana for the impactful live-changing brought to the people of municipality.
He noted that though the World Vision Program chapter is being closed, it shouldn’t be the end of their partnership,
“Instead, let it be a new beginning of collaboration, growth, and collective efforts to build an even brighter future for the people of Savelugu, Nanton and indeed the World.”
He used the opportunity to advise the people of Savelugu and its surrounding communities to take care and protect all the NGO has provided for them.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, advocacy, and development organisation dedicated to bringing hope, joy, and justice to all children, especially the most vulnerable and their families.
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