Surviving without reliable source of wholesome drinking
water, electricity, decent toilet and a health facility in this 21st
century can indeed be a perilous existence. Nothing more than struggles, strains
and stress. For the inhabitants of Domeki and Brahabekum in the Agona East
District of the Central region of Ghana, pipe borne water, decent toilets,
basic school and health facility are unimaginable luxuries. The inhabitants of
these two farming communities have been surviving on Ayensu stream as source of
drinking water, walking long distances to access medical care, living without
electricity in isolated forest settlement with courage and determination to
live no matter what. Virtues which even the angels in heaven will be envious
of.
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Domoki Community |
Inspire Global Ideas (IGI) were full of shock as they
frighteningly went round the villages of Domeki and Brahabekum after they had
finished health outreach sensitization on malaria and bilharzia on the 28th
November, 2014.In Domeki, the inhabitants of about 250 including women and
children all survive without a decent toilet either for the individual households
or the whole community. These angels of courage rather use a dug man hole of
about 6ft square with coconut stems placed with intervals serving as decks. This
village folks sometimes share this toilet facility with reptiles usually snakes
preying on insects in the toilet. The whole place gets flooded when the Ayensu
stream which is in close proximity to the village overflows it banks especially
in the rainy seasons. In 2010, 20th June for example the whole settlement was
inundated by flood but somehow these village folks who did not have any alternative
place of settlement came back. As the inhabitants told the IGI volunteers “we
pray our settlement is not washed away again like it did in 2010.
Community washroom |
Inspiring communities through volunteering. |
Without any source of entertainment, the people of Domeki
spend a great deal of hours of their daylights in the farm and inevitably spend
the rest indoors when the sun sets and gives way to total darkness in the
night.
IGI developmental programmes for 2015
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Health talk. |
Brahebekum, another farming community which is about a kilometer from
Domeki has more inhabitants of about 700 people. Just like Domeki, Brahabekum
people also drink from the Ayensu River, has no basic school and no health
facility. However, these inhabitants who are predominantly farmers and alcohol
makers are working so hard towards the accessibility of being connected to the
national electricity grid. Having lived there all their lives, these forest angels
despite their misery of deprivation of basic social amenities, work so hard to
send their children to school several kilometers away.
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IGI staff addressing community needs |
IGI volunteers who embarked on the health outreach programme
to the forest communities of Domeki and Brahabekum considered themselves
privileged of having witnessed the existence of real angels living in the
woods. Angels without wings and yet courageously strive to provide the
essentials of human existence for their children sometimes in risky manner.
MOVE YOURSELF FROM YOUR COMFORT ZONE TO INSPIRE COMMUNITIES FOLKS WITH IGI.
Indeed,
real angels live in the woods of Domeki and Brahabekum. But for how long will
this show of bravado keeps this angels strong until another flood wash away their
settlement, deadly diseases attack their children, ignorance engulfs them and
snakes decide to be merciless?
IGI- You can inspire.
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