To ensure there is water for domestic use, women and children have to wake up at 4am and walk about two hours to the stream in Togo for water and walk another two hours home before going to school in Nambong in the Tatale – Sanguli district of the Northern region.
The children who finally get to school at 9:am to 10:am sometimes have to go home before the closing time of 12:pm to help their mothers get water again for the evening’s meals.
The community Nambong which is about five hours ride from the district capital Tatale is without any regular source of drinking water.
A visit to the community by Adom News’ Illiasu Abdul Rauf revealed the sorry state in which the residents are living in.
The only way to get water now is to walk four hours in the morning and another four hours in the evening to the stream in Togo which they share with animals like pigs, cattle and this according to them is affecting the education of their children.
A student, Olivia Nyagah who walk long distances for searching for water before going to school said, her grades in school is declining due to the situation.
She appealed to the government and Non-government organizations to come to their aid.
“We can’t learn again because of the water problem in our community so government should help us to get water. Everyday we have to walk the stream and is very far and if we go to we’ll be sleeping and the teacher are also disturbing us that we are lazy. So we are appealing to the government to come to our aid else we don’t have future. ” she bemoaned.
Women who are also using water for so many things added that, the water crisis there is affecting them a lot they have wake up around 4:am to start walking to Togo where the stream is to get water to bath and cook for their children before they will go to school so they are appealing to the government to come to their aid.
“To walk to the stream to get water to bath and cook for your children is not easy at all so we are appealing to the government to get us water so that our children can go to school normal time to learn” they plead.
The chief of the community, Chief Dagah Ndamle said the water problem in the area is very serious which if not resolved could affect he future of the children in the town.
Meanwhile, efforts by Adom News to get the side of the District Chief executive of the area Hon. Thomas Mbomba proved futile.
