2026 JoyNews Impact Maker Award winner brings clean water to Yoko Tsume after years of cattle dugout dependence
Residents of Yorkutime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region now have access to clean and reliable drinking water after years of relying on a dugout originally constructed for cattle. For years, the community had no dependable source of potable water, forcing residents to share the greenish water in the dugout with livestock. The situation became even more difficult during the dry season, when some residents had to travel about 10 kilometres by motorcycle to neighbouring communities in search of water. The hardship came to the attention of 2026 JoyNews Impact Maker Award winner in the Education and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) category, Senyo Success Gbormittah, and his team at Hope for Ghana when they visited the community in February 2026.