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Ghana: 544 Flood Victims Receive Reconstruction Materials
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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
William N. Jalulah
WITH SUPPORT from the central government and its partner agencies, about 544 flood victims in the Bolgatanga Municipality, have received reconstruction materials to rebuild their houses, which collapsed during last year's flood disaster, before the next rainy season sets in.
During the distribution exercise of the materials, the Bolgatanga Municipal Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Mr. Alfred Sawuug, told this reporter that the beneficiaries were drawn from 28 communities within the municipality.
Four Hundred and forty-nine (449) of the beneficiaries were given roofing sheets with roofing nails, 40 received 10 bags of cement each, and 55 received 10 pieces of assorted roofing woods.
The total number of the beneficiaries represented 82.5% of the affected flood victims in the municipality.
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Mr. Sawuug, who supervised the distribution exercise, was hopeful that all those who benefited from the materials, were the hardest-hit victims, whose houses collapsed, when floods swept through their communities last year.
The Municipal Coordinating Director, Mr. P. K. Kuupol, stated that the exercise was collaborated by the assembly and NADMO, with support from the central government and its partner donors and agencies.
Similar exercises have taken place in all the eight districts of the region, except the newly-created Kassena-Nankana West District Assembly, which was then part of its mother district, Kassena-Nankana District, at the time of the floods.
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