Residents in Mepe are striving to overcome the loss and trauma they endured when their homes were engulfed by floodwaters.

This follows the move by the Volta River Authority (VRA) to open the spillways of the Akosombo and Kpong dams.

Mepe is one of the towns severely affected by flooding in the Volta Region, among the eight districts hardest hit by this man-made disaster along the Lower Volta Basin.

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Several facilities have been converted into emergency shelters to house the families downstream displaced by this calamity.

While displaced residents there count their losses in make-shift shelters, schools have also been shut down in the area.

But a senior high school graduate is utilizing the time to teach the now-idle kids.

Twenty-year-old Gertrude Nutsukpui is dedicating her time at one of the safe havens to offer free lessons to children who have also been displaced in the North Tongu District.

JoyNews' Carlos Calony has the rest of the story in the report below: