Prekumasi is a village located in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region of Ghana and has a population of around 1000 people. The main occupation activities are farming and trading.
Among the many challenges faced by the community, access to portable drinking water presents the most arduous. For some time, the community had endeavoured to construct a borehole to alleviate the difficulty in accessing portable drinking water, but their efforts proved unproductive. It was based on this, that KJM Foundation identified the community as the target of their next project. During the commission project, the foundation held discussions on proper hygiene and sanitation practice.
In spite of the myriad of challenges that were encountered during the project’s execution, particularly relating to the deplorable state of the access roads to the community, the project was successfully completed two months after its original inception. The borehole was officially commissioned by the KJM Foundation team, led by the founder, Mr. Emmanuel Kojo Jones Mensah and the Prekumasi Chief along with the Council of Elders. This marked the first borehole project by the KJM Foundation, commissioned in August 2019.