The Millicent Ketu Foundation based in the Volta Region of Ghana as part of its main mandate and responsibilities towards reducing poverty in the Volta Region has provided two mechanized boreholes at Deve and Akuta in the North Tongu District.
This is meant to minimize the hardship residents pass through in accessing portable water for household needs.
This gesture by the Foundation has equally saved the girl child from dropping out from school due to how girls scramble for water before preparing for school every morning during school days.
In extending a hand of support to the vulnerable people seeking mental health care, the Foundation has presented and distributed food items to the Dornorkordzi Psychiatric Hospital in Tadzewu to mark eight consecutive years of humanitarian support during Christmas celebrations.
For the past seven years, the Millicent Ketu Foundation has been a major stakeholder to the Tadzewu-Dornorkordzi Psychiatric Clinic every Christmas with essential support. After assessing their needs, the foundation successfully constructed and commissioned a five-unit toilet facility on 25th December 2022.
The Millicent Ketu Foundation is a registered Non-profit Organization committed to supporting communities through sustainable development and relief initiatives.
The Foundation was established eight years ago by Miss Millicent Keku and officially registered in November 2022, has consistently focused on providing practical, life enhancing support to deprived communities.
To further strengthen the support based in health, the foundation time to time helps with food items and cooked meals to the Hoggar Clinic in Akatsi to support their patients.
At a ceremony to hand over the two mechanised boreholes to Deve and Akuta, Millicent Ketu expressed her joy in giving back to the society and doing the Lord’s work.
“Our foundation core mandate is to help elevate poverty in this area and is the responsibility of we as citizens of the Volta Region to show the way before any other person can help us. So this gestures are part of what the foundation has been doing for the last eight years and we will continue to support at crucial areas of development, we therefore need the collaboration of everyone in order to succeed” she stated.
“It is our ( Millicent Ketu Foundation) hope that these water project will be used and managed well for prosperity. Let’s us cultivate the habit of good maintenance to ensure the longevity of the project”, she added.
The District chief Executive for North Tongu, Victoria Amefadzi Yawa Doe with a joyful mood, on behalf of the district, thanked the foundation for being part of development in the area.
“Government can not alone provide the developmental needs of the people and that’s why institutions like your foundation is there to help government accelerate and drive development in the country. The development plans of the Assembly outweighs the common fund and the internal generated funds, so the need for foundation like yours to be part of the development partners”, the DCE said.
One of the Assembly members of the beneficiary communities, Ernest Kudjordji reminded the people to see themselves as lucky because many communities are without portable water and are looking forward to this water systems so they should use the boreholes well.
The chiefs in the beneficiary communities also commended the efforts of Millicent Ketu Foundation for their humanitarian work which is reducing poverty in the Volta Region.
In December 2023, the foundation extended relief to victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage, providing meals, water, drinks, food items, and free health screening for over 300 widows and orphans at Kpota in the Sogakope Municipality and also donated branded exercise books to school children.
In 2024, a mechanized borehole project at Klenomadi in the Ketu North constituency was as well provided for safe drinking water to the community which was commissioned by Eric Edem Agbana, the MP for Ketu North.
In the early part of 2025, the foundation supported relief items to the tidal waves victims in Agavedzi, Amutinu and Sallakope consisting of bedsheets, soap, school bags, and branded exercise books.
By Mohammed Rabiu Tanko
