Vic Mensa keeps displaying his humanitarian side by providing assistance to individuals who are dear to him.
The 29-year-old artist, Victor Kwesi Mensah, was born in Chicago and raised there, but his father is from Ghana and is in charge of the charity Let Them Drink Water, according to Billboard. Mensa noticed how problems with water contamination were affecting the neighborhood and made the decision to try and help by working with his father to build a borehole, a manual pump that is very uncommon in Africa.
The first borehole was built in Koforidua, a city in southern Ghana’s east with 200,000 people. Mensa became interested in expanding because of its success and decided to construct Boreholes in the mountainous Volta region’s Effiduase city and Amedzope village.
“We’re building 3 Boreholes in different communities in Ghana to provide clean drinking water; the first being the Asokore Zongo in Koforidua where my family lives, which is already built,” he said. “The other locations are a nearby community called Efiduase and then our ancestral village in the Volta Region Amedzope. Most people in communities like this in Ghana experience constant water borne diseases.”