Day 9 - Kwahu Tafo

Today it was great to tour the town of Kwahu-Tafo and see all of the projects that Friends of Tafo have managed, including the water project through the charity donations.

We started our tour with a visit to a local school to see the facilities for the students.

Note Charlotte Springs is Dr Robert Springs (on the Go Ghana Cycle Challenge) daughter who taught at the school a few years ago and this teaching block is named in her honour:

The tour then continued to the Community Library and the Internet Cafe funded by Friends of Tafo to provide both a resource to the local people and as a source of income.

Most importantly we visited one of the original bore holes that is contaminated with disease which causes illness as the people do not have the time to boil it before drinking.  The money that people have donated for the Go Ghana Cycle Challenge will ensure that the well is covered and a pump and filter installed which will keep the water clean and reduce the amount of illness. 

Note the colour of the water!!!

The huge bowl balanced on the ladies head is full of water!!!!:

One new well with a pump and filter has just been completed, last week thanks to the money raised from the Go Ghana Cycle Challenge.   This is already providing clean drinking water and will make a big difference to the quality of life of the town people.  The project is also managed by local people to ensure that it is sustainable for the future.

It is also really great to hear that the money raised is in excess of the original target which means that more wells and boreholes will be able to installed - THANKYOU!!!

Following a visit the town's beautiful waterfall and lunch at the High School it was time for the local versus cyclist mixed football match.   It was a very tough game given that the cyclists were fatigued from the past 6 days of cycling and the average age of the home side was just 17 years old!  

We had expected the teachers to play but it seemed that they had volunteered their best player student!!!!   It was an exciting match and the cyclists put up a great fight with the final score at 2:1 to the home side.

Tonight there is a celebration farewell party at Humphrey's house before we leave for Accra the capital in the morning and to our overnight flight.

It has been a truly life changing and memorable experience which I shall never forget which I have so enjoyed sharing with the new friends both from the UK, Sweden, Malaysia and Ghana.

This is my last blog from Ghana as the PC I have been using I will be handing over to Kofi tomorrow so that he can use it for his University course thanks to my company Northgate.

Neil.