Kitare Disene community is one of the numerous communities deprived of basic social amenities in the Nkwanta South district of the Volta region.

The community with a population of about 500 residents who solely earn a livelihood through fishing is located 31 miles away from Nkwanta, the District capital.

Kitare Disene is located in a remote area which is being faced with a challenge of access to potable water. Residents depend on water from River Oti, a branch of River Volta for domestic use. This has lead to the recording of high figures of water-borne diseases in the community.

The unavailability of a health facility is another pressing challenge to residents here.  

Nevertheless, some residents were trained as Community Base Assistant (CBA) to treat minor illness in the community.

But the worrying development is that, these CBAs sometimes run out of stock of drugs for about 4 months due to the delay of supply from the Ghana Health Service. 

This development has left residents with no option but to travel about 8 kilometers by foot to access healthcare at a CHPS compound in another community.

The community which is yet to be connected to the national electricity grid has very bad access road.

Luck smiled on them when Ghanaian-born American couple Eugene and Sandra Dzathor who run a Charity organization, Florence John Foundation, has pledged to help provide Kitare Disene with basic social amenities. 

The couple's first mission was to donate clothes to these residents who survive on less than one dollar daily.

Fifty percent of the clothes were donated by Eugene Dzathor's friends in the US Army, the rest were from friends and family.

In an interview with Joy News the couple who were touched by the plight of the residents said "everyone has a responsibility to make someone's life better. That's what makes us humans. And if we could just take turns helping the less fortunate in our society just for even a day, he or she would not have to think about how they will survive tomorrow." 

"Among a lot of deprived communities brought for consideration, the team chose Kitare Disene because of its level of poverty and location. It is one of the communities that no one will like to go due to the distance and the nature of the road. But we wanted to send a message to the residents that the are not forgotten," Ms Dzathor added.