Household latrine project for Taha community

WuniZaligu Development Association, an NGO is to support the Taha Community with household latrines to help improve the community’s sanitation challenges.

The project, which would start in the first quarter of 2013, is being financed by ICCO, an International NGO and a member of the Dutch Wash group.

Mr Eric Chimsi, Coordinator of Wash Alliance-Ghana, announced this during a day’s learning festival held to create awareness on sanitation on Monday in Taha a suburb of Tamale.

The event forms part of post World Toilet Day celebration aimed at educating and discouraging people from the practice of open defecation (OD) in the communities.

He said one of the effective measures to reduce OD was constant education as well as altering the attitudes of community members.

“When people are well educated to know the implication of their actions like littering and involving in OD, they will observe good environmental practices,” he said.

Alhaji Abdul Razark, Regional National Commission for Civic Education Officer said a research conducted in the community indicated that the area with a population of about 1,050 people had only five household latrines.

He said the rest of the population resorted to OD, which posed danger to the health and wellbeing of community members.

“The community is a breeding ground for the outbreak of disease like diarrhea, malaria and cholera “he said.

Mr Abdul-Karim Ziblim, Programmes Manger of Wunizaligu Development Association explained that community members would be supervised to prevent them from using the latrines for well.

Source: GNA