By
Gideon D. Ebbah, GNA
Bomso (Ash), Jan.
21, GNA – The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions by the Sekyere
East District Cluster Office of the World Vision International, Ghana (WVI-G),
is achieving its objective of impacting positive change in personal and
environmental hygiene.
Consequently, school
teachers in that District have commended the interventions in the form of the
construction and provision of potable water, toilet and hand washing facilities
for school children and community members of 22 communities in its operational
areas in the District.
Mr. Ernest Asare
Ofosu, a teacher at the Bomso Basic School, speaking at a stakeholder/donor
meeting at Bomso, said WVI-G’s WASH interventions, including the “Sesame WASH
UP” – a hand-washing club in schools, have gone a long way to reduce hospital
visits in most families as well as stemmed open defecation.
Additionally, on
hand washing, Mr. Ofosu said, the provision and introduction of the “Tippy
Tap”, a hand washing device by the WVI-G in these basic schools, has served as
a booster to the positive behavioural change in hand-washing among the pupils,
especially after visiting the washroom before eating.
Mr. Francis Gumah,
the Cluster Manager, said his outfit was committed to ensuring the wellbeing of
the people in the area, especially vulnerable children.
“Embarking on WASH
projects and programmes in the District and other operational areas of his
outfit, was a necessity to help ensure and sustain the good health,
productivity and livelihood of the people.
Mrs. Georgina
Harriet Nyamekeh, the WASH Officer of the Sekyere East Cluster of WVI-G, said
it was gratifying that her outfit has achieved good returns for its investments
in the construction of toilet and mechanized borehole facilities in these basic
schools.
She mentioned the
beneficiary schools as; Bomso, Akuakrom, Seniagya, Odurokrom, Feyiase and
Asukokor communities in the District.
The projects
benefiting over 13,400 people in the area, has the focus of providing and
ensuring easy access to safe and potable water as well as improving hygiene for
pupils, teachers and rural communities in general and expressed happiness that
these objectives have been achieved.
She added that the
“Sesame WASH Up” club initiative was also aimed at impacting attitudinal change in the community
members to arrive at the outcomes such as improved health, zero open defecation
and reduced water-borne and the contracting of fecal-oral diseases.
GNA