What We Have Done to Help Communities
Building of SAINT ANTHONY’S SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, BADU
2023
This first block for Saint Anthony’s School Elementary School, Badu, was completed in December, 2023. This beautiful, life-changing project was paid for by our generous donors, to whom we will forever be grateful.
Thank you for always supporting our work and the folks in our rural communities in the Bono Region in Ghana.
Gratefully Yours, Fr. Joseph
Building of water wells
sponsored by The Altman Kazickas Foundation
2022
Waterwell built on October 2022 at the Catholic Secretariat, the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Sunyani, Sunyani/Abesim Road. The well serves the diocesan staff, the nuns in a near by convent, and the nearby residents.
Waterwell built in October 2022 in the rural section of Kotokrom, on Sunyani/Techiman Road. There are over 750 people living within the catchment area of the well.
Waterwell built on October 2022 in a village called Kwasi Mfum, on Sunyani/Antroni Road. The well provides clean drinking water for about one thousand residents within its catchment area.
Waterwell built in October 2022 at St. James Academy, Abesim, Bono, Ghana. The well provides clean drinking for the students, staff, and residents living within the catchment of the well.
Waterwell built in Ahene, a village near Bokuo in Wenchi District in the Bono Region of Ghana.
Waterwell built in Bokuo, a village on Sunyani/Wenchi Road. It provides clean drinking water to 1,500 residents.
opening/blessing of the Convent.
Dr. Joe Marotta Residence, at St. Anthony’s Clinic
February 8, 2021
Nuns/nurses’ resident/convent at St. Anthony’s Clinic, Badu, in the Bono Region of Ghana.
Opening of St. Anthony’s Clinic
February 9, 2018
St. Anthony’s clinic was commissioned and built in Badu, Tain District, in 2018. The clinic provides medical care to the local inhabitants and surrounding villages, serving a population of 25,000 to 30,000 people.
St. Anthony’s Clinic official opening, Badu, Tain District, 2018
Bishop Matthew K. Gyamfi delivering a speech
U.S. delegation to the official opening of the clinic
Bishop Matthew K. Gyamfi and some of the U.S. delegation
A section of the congregation at the opening ceremony
More participants to the opening of the clinic
Building of water wells
Since 2006, we have built more than 15 water wells, bringing clean, safe water in rural communities and serving more than 20,000 residents in Asuafu (Badu), Boadan (Wenchi), Tromeso, Mwoase, and Badu.
October 2020
We built a new water well in a farming community in Tromeso township, providing clean drinking water to about 850 residents in the villages.
January 2020
We built a new water well in Akore, in the Tain District, Bono Region of Ghana, providing clean drinking water to about one thousand residents who live within the catchment area of the well.
2006-2018
We built water well in Boadan, Asuafu, Badu and Mwoase, providing clean drinking water to thousands of residents who live within the catchment area of the well.
Water well built in 2018 at Boadan, a suburb of Welchi, serving about 4,500 people
Water well built in 2012 at Asuafu. Together with the well built at Badu, it serves about 5,000 people
Water well built in 2012 at Badu
Fetching clean, safe drinking water from the well built at Mwoase, serving more than 3,000 people
Pumping clean water from the first wells built in 2006
These wells serve more than 2,000 people
Providing drinking water to surrounding communities