All structures being reconstructed in the Appiatse township will come with a toilet, living room, veranda and kitchen.
This is according to the Chairperson of the Appiatse Support Fund, Rev. Dr. Joyce Rosalind Aryee who says the new designs will give community members something to look forward to after their lives were ‘truncated’.
“Most communities had one-bedroom, two bedrooms sometimes they are just one room or two rooms, no distinction, what we’ve tried doing is to give at least a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen, a toilet and a veranda.”
A total of 540 units of houses have been earmarked for construction, ranging from one-bedroom to seven-bedroom houses, after a devastating explosion in the Appiatse township on 20th January 2022.
“It’s costly but then it will last much longer. Don’t forget the displacement and there are people who even if they were sleeping under trees, had a life, those who were going to the farm and coming back, those who were selling to people, they had a life, suddenly that life gets truncated and they find themselves almost living in a camp.”
“If you’re going to give them back something, I think the least that you can do is to give them something that they can look forward to,” she said on Spotlight on MX24 TV.
Dr Joyce Aryee added that the reconstruction will include the building of a modern-day market and road network for the township.
“We even intend to do a modern-day market for them, one of the donors, called Gensa, collected some money through crowdfunding so they have sufficient money to build a modern-day market for them…we wanted to do it in such a way that there will be a road network for them,” she added.
