Rotaract Club of Kumasi, the youth wing of Rotary Club, has completed eight micro flush toilet facilities in selected public basic schools in the Ashanti Region.
Two of the facilities came with boreholes to help improve access to water and sanitation among the students in the areas.
The project fits into the Sustainable Development Goal 6, which focuses on ensuring access to clean water and sanitation for all by 2030.
“We had to concentrate on schools that are in need of the facilities and also looked at their commitment towards these projects. That is how these schools were selected and so far, it has been successful,” indicated Boakye Dankwah, President of the Rotaract Club of Kumasi.
Each block of the micro flush toilets has ten units to serve the interest of the students in the schools.
Basic schools in Kronom Afrancho, Ejura Sekyedumase, Nkwantah Penteng and Anwomaso Domeabra are among communities that benefited from the project.
Other beneficiary communities in the Adansi enclave include Akrofuom, Okyerekrom, Adamso and Kokotenten.
The Domeabra Methodist School is the last of the selected basic schools to have a facility completed.
Until the completion of the ten-unit micro flush toilet, the existing eight-unit facility was unable to serve the population of about eight hundred students.
Students, sometimes, had to queue to use the facility, a situation school authorities find inappropriate.
Headmistress, Philomena Atta Mensah reveals, “the younger ones sometimes had to soil themselves after a long wait.”
She further indicated the School Management Team has already engaged some persons to help in maintenance of the facility.
About Rotary
Rotary International is a renowned humanitarian service organization that brings together a global network of volunteer professional leaders and businesses dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges.
The key areas of focus include disease prevention, support of the environment, basic education and literacy, maternal and child health, water and sanitation, economic development and peacebuilding.
It connects 1.4 million members of more than 46,000 Rotary Clubs in over 200 communities and geographical areas.
In Ghana, it has 70 clubs of which three are already located in Kumasi.