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If there is anybody out there who doubts the existence of abject poverty in Ghana, a short visit to Tom Krom would immediately renew and solve that contemplation quickly.

Residents of Tom Krom, a suburb of Nsawam in the Eastern Region constantly live in miserable, unfortunate and humiliating conditions.

With no electricity to depend on, hygienic water to drink, schools to educate their wards and clinic to treat farmers who are mostly bitten by snakes, living in the area makes life a sad thing to enjoy constantly.

Water is life but in Tom Krom, parents and children have to walk about five miles to access unhygienic water to fill their pots at home. It is for this reason that    Nhyiramma Foundation with support from OmniBank has constructed and handed over a borehole to the people of Tom Krom.

CEO of Nhyiramma Foundation, Nana Adwoa Tutuwaa, tells Peacefmonline.com that when she heard about the life threatening conditions at Tom Krom she couldn’t believe it and wanted to verify it by visiting the place.

“Two years ago, I came here and saw that it wasn’t a pleasant thing to live here. They told me that they only eat rice during Christmas and to buy rice, they even had to travel to main Nsawam town to buy it.

I was shocked about it and to make it worse, they didn’t even have hygienic water to drink. They had to move about five miles to search for water. When I heard the story, I couldn’t be at peace with myself- I had to come back and help”.