RESCUE AID FOUNDATION
Although improving, Ghana is still one of the slowly emerging countries in the world, where life expectancy is just 64.22 years. Only 46% of the rural population has access to safe water and just 13% have access to adequate sanitation. More than 80 percent of people in Ghana have access to safe water, but only 13 percent of people have access to improved sanitation.
Dependency on unsafe water sources is higher in rural areas. Due to drinking contaminated water, diarrheal disease is the third most commonly reported illness at health centers across the country and 25 percent of all deaths in children under the age of five are attributed to diarrhea.
In addition to lack of sanitation infrastructure, some cultural beliefs and views encourage people in rural areas not to use latrines. 3. About Rescue Aid Foundation Rescue Aid Foundation (RAF) is a non-profit Christian Humanitarian Organization based in Ghana.
Our vision is to see an uttermost societies in rural Ghana gain access to the basic wants like; Education, Water & Sanitation by 2035. Our mission is to reach out to needy rural communities in Ghana and support them by educating them to gain knowledge which will by all standards alleviate them from poverty and make sure that every rural house hold has access to at least seven (7) gallons of water on a daily basis by the set date.
We also seek to make available at least, one 12 sitter KVIP in each rural community by the set date. Our main focus is on rural Ghana and over the past years, we have contributed our quota to national development in the rural sector.
By so doing; we have drilled over 7 bore holes for communities in the Eastern, Central and Volta regions of Ghana. Ongoing is a 12 sitter KVIP at Akropong in the Central region.
We have three school projects ongoing in the Ashanti and Central regions of Ghana. Ongoing is a $2.7 million dollar Senior High, Technical and Nursing Training College in Abodom, Bewai of the Ashanti region.
We have an $85,000 6units classroom in Kyekyewere in the Ashanti region and a $76,000 6unit classroom block in Akroful in the Central region. We major in Education and Water & Sanitation.
We are a registered as a legal humanitarian organization in Ghana with registration number: G-24,086. Rescue Aid Foundation has been in existence since 2002 but became administratively operational in the early 2005. We have been involved in several Well-Drilling in rural Ghana using what we call the EXPO-50 technology drilling bit.
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