It has emerged that students at the Mamfe Methodist Junior High School in the Eastern Region share the same toilet facility with residents and commuters in the area.
This came up when officials of the Africa-Schools Sanitation Foundation visited the school to access the challenge as part of it’s initiative to provide better toilets and urinals in deprived schools across the country.
The school is near a car station and shares its toilet with both the community and commuters despite the health risk.
The non-governmental organization under it’s #AdoptASchool project will construct a new toilet in the school.
One of the lead advocates of the project, Kwame Tutu, a communication specialist, trainer and broadcaster indicated that the situation at the school was not only terrible but a threat to the health of the students.
He stated that the NGO will construct a new toilet facility for the school and has appealed to Ghanaians to assist them embark on this project and many others to come.
The school has provided a piece of land that would be used for the project.
Africa Sanitation Foundation is a non-governmental, apolitical organization with the primary aim of mobilising Ghanaians/Africas in facilitating and executing the building of decent urinals, toilets as well as paint and roof dilapidated public schools. This is to support governments in their quest to develop their respective countries.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
