The Volta River Authority has intensified its humanitarian efforts to help alleviate the plight of people adversely affected by heavy flooding resulting from spillage of excess water from the Akosombo and Kpong Hydro-electric Dams.
The spillage, which began about a month ago, and is ongoing, has created a humanitarian challenge downstream of the lower Volta in several communities in parts of the Volta, Eastern and Greater Accra regions.
Deploying an all-hands-on-deck approach, the VRA is working round the clock to protect lives in the affected communities through the evacuation of victims and their subsequent relocation in areas designated as safe havens as well as the provision of relief items to support their temporal stay in the safe havens.
In that regard the Authority has provided buses and off-road pick-up vehicles to convey victims to designated areas of safety.
