American healthcare non-profit, United Vessels of Love Foundation (U-VOL), says it is pleased to announce the successful completion of a solar-powered borehole located in the Ojegbe community of Obi Local Government in Benue State.
In a statement signed by the PR affiliate of the foundation, U-VOL said “thanks to the borehole located next to Ojegbe Primary School, 1,500 people will now have access to clean drinking water”.
It further said not too long ago, in the middle of pandemic-induced economic uncertainty, residents had to confront the harsh reality of no access to clean drinkable water. A strange water illness claimed over 270 lives and affected hundreds more within the same local government area”.
Before the borehole, residents frequented a local stream within the village called Orowu, which dries up seasonally and gets contaminated easily during the rainy season as the same water source is used for multiple uses.
According to a resident, Juliet Obahi,Our children will go for long hours and fetch water, and when they bring it back home and drink it, they start purging,” .
U-VOL’s borehole intervention swiftly follows a medical mission in the same Obi community, where a team of medical volunteers treated over 600 people.
The clean water project was powered by public support, donations, and a local project management team.
The founder of U-VOL, Faith Adole, is a trained Nurse Practitioner and an experienced Global Health Leader, currently pursuing her Doctoral studies at The Johns Hopkins University.
She said U-VOL plans to continue expanding its newly launched Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program targeted at empowering and advocating for vulnerable rural communities throughout various parts of Nigeria. The organisation hopes to help aid both governmental and other NGO efforts to eradicate open defecation, provide health promotion education activities on hygiene and sanitation, and promote the construction of public toilet facilities.
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