Saltpond Redevelopment Institute (SRI) is a not-for-profit, volunteer, charitable organization aimed at bringing professionals, industrialists, educators, business persons and scientists together for the concenÂtrated scientific redevelopment of the Saltpond geographical area. The intent is to maintain and preserve local traditional values and systems with the help of the elderly and its rebirth in the youth. This will bring a new regional, national and global image and vitality to Saltpond.
Saltpond, a small township with a population of 15,000, is located on the coast of the West African Country of Ghana. Saltpond was once a flourishing shipping and trading post, an educational center for training teachers, a center for a thriving ceramics industry, and headquarters for the Department of Geological Survey. The liberation movement in Ghana during the forties and fifties and the whole Pan African movement of such notables as W.E.B. DuBois and Kwame N'Krumah were based in Saltpond. All of the above are gone, leaving the people, mainly small scale farmers and fishermen, and a government owned tile manufacturing factory in place.
The Hospital in Saltpond with 100 beds, two physicians, a few nurses and other paramedical personnel reports over 100,000 admissions annually from Saltpond and neighboring villages. At one time the Hospital was plagued by a lack of continuous running water, inconsistent electricity, and no refrigeration to store blood. These condiÂtions, at one time, resulted in some patients dying due to limited blood supplies and electrical power failure during surgeries.
