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AFC rescues Waiakabra with six water tanks as creeks run dry

Sep 10, 2012 News

The current dry season is wreaking havoc in the lives of residents of the Linden/Soesdyke Highway community of Waiakabra.
With creeks already dried up, residents are in desperate need for drinking water.
But some help came their way last Friday when Executive member of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Gerhard Ramsaroop, on behalf of the party, donated six 430 gallons black tanks to the community.
The residents in the area are yet to be regularised and receive access to potable water.
In the meantime, they depend on two creeks, one of which was dug on Ramsaroop’s farm nearby, which he maintains for the community, and another in an abandoned sand pit which is also maintained by the AFC executive member.
The predominantly Amerindian community like all too many in Guyana, is a depressed one with few job opportunities.
Some of the people eke out an existence by digging out with their bare hands, scraps of metal buried by the now defunct IDEAL/GRL factory.
The water situation, especially with the present extreme dry weather, only increases their burden.  Women, including the elderly, and children, are forced to fetch water over long distances and over hills.
The Alliance for Change has renewed its call to the Government, and in particular, to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs and the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to intervene urgently and ensure a better quality of life for this community, and others that are similarly affected.

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