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Mr Joseph Senyo Kwashie

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Francis Duku-Boateng, GNA

Koforidua, Nov. 21,
GNA – Mr Joseph Senyo Kwashie, the Executive Director of Community And Family
Aid Foundation (CAFAF), a Non Governmental Organization (NGO), has said fecal
matter is our natural resource for energy production.

Mr Kwashie said this
in a press release copied to the Ghana News Agency to commemorate the World
Toilet Day.

The day is
celebrated every year to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis
and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which promises
sanitation for all by 2030.

The theme for this
year’s e celebration is: ‘leaving no one behind’.

He said there is
nothing like waste due to advancement in technology and called for fecal matter
to be seen as an economic resource.

Mr Kwashie urged the
world leaders and the business community to invest in toilet management to take
advantage of the opportunities that could be derived from such ventures.

He said statistics
shows that 4.2 billion people live without safely managed sanitation in the
world which is more than half the global population whiles 673 million people
still practice open defecation and 2 billion people use a drinking water source
contaminated with faeces globally.

Mr Kwashie said
inadequate sanitation is estimated to cause 432,000 diarrhea related deaths
every year globally and is a major factor in diseases such as intestinal worms
and trachoma.

Meanwhile the UNICEF
2019 report reveals that children under the age of five living in countries
affected by protracted conflict are on average, more likely to die from diarrhea
diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene than by direct
violence.

GNA


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