Tema Mante Din school compound turned into refuse dump

Ghana News Agency - Feb 10, 2020 0

The compound of Mante Din Basic School in Tema Community One has been turned into a refuse dump and a place of convenience...

World Vision International spends GH¢100k to curb open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Jan 16, 2020 0

Ms. Grace Dinu, the Officer in-charge of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) of the World Vision International (WVI), a non- governmental organisation, says...

Ho-Urban gets more improved toilets under Urban Sanitation in 2019

Ghana News Agency - Nov 25, 2019 0

Mr Aaron Kofi Amedzro, Ho Municipal Environmental Health Officer, has said a total of 3,442 improved toilet facilities have been constructed within the...

15 Arrested for Open Defecation

Ghana News Agency - Nov 6, 2019 0

A Sanitation Task Force of La-Nkwantanang Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA )on Wednesday dawn arrested 15 persons defecating openly at various places in the municipality. The...

Ghana government tasked to double-up efforts to achieve SDG 6

Ike Dzokpo - Sep 29, 2019 0

Ghana as a country has been challenged to double up efforts in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 which requires that...

VRA works to end open defecation in Supomu -Dunkwa

Ghana News Agency - Sep 20, 2019 0

The Volta River Authority, (VRA) has provided 30 biofill places of convenience for the Supomu-Dunkwa community in its quest to end open defecation in...

ASHMA is determined to end open defecation by 2020

Ghana News Agency - May 5, 2019 0

The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) have vowed to end open defecation in the area by the year 2020. The Assembly said they had made steady...

Upper West RICCS debate on plans to stop open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Mar 27, 2019 0

The Upper West Regional Inter-coordinating Committee on Sanitation (RICCS) of Environmental Health Science in a bid to end open defecation has held a stakeholder...

Northern region shows 10% decline in Open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Mar 27, 2019 0

Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister, has said Open Defecation (OD) rate in the Northern Region currently stands at 56.8 per cent, which...

10 Bongo Communities Receive ODF Facilities

Ghana News Agency - Mar 20, 2019 0

The Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region has handed over about 222 toilet facilities with building materials to 10 communities as part...

Agbogbloshie e-waste and open defecation top on government agenda

Ghana News Agency - Feb 22, 2019 0

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the construction of a state-of-the-art recycling facility at Agbogbloshie will commence in April. The move, he said...

Traditional Authorities advised to design measures to end open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Feb 20, 2019 0

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of Community Development Alliance (CDA) Ghana, Mr Sulemana Bipuah, has urged traditional rulers to enact and implement community by-laws...

Landlords urged to build household latrines to discourage open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Feb 12, 2019 0

Mr John Asamani, the Techiman North Environmental Health Officer, has called on landlords in the district to provide house-hold latrines in their houses to...

Asutifi North Assembly Fights Open Defecation by Building Community Toilets

Ghana News Agency - Feb 2, 2019 0

The Asutifi North District Assembly, Brong-Ahafo Region, is constructing aqua-privy toilets for residents of Kensere and Kwadwo Adaekrom, cocoa growing communities in the District,...

Ghana First Company Ltd pledges to fight open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Jan 30, 2019 1

Ghana First Company Limited, a waste management company, has said there is the need to build, own and use improved toilet facilities as a...

Dodi Papase School Children Rise Up Against Open Defecation

Ghana News Agency - Jan 27, 2019 0

Hundreds of basic school pupils in Dodi Papase in the Kadjebi District of the Volta Region have taken the campaign against open defecation to...

E.P. Basic School in Tongor-Dzemeni Practices Open Defecation

Ghana News Agency - Jan 18, 2019 0

The lack of toilet facilities in the Tongor-Dzemeni Evangelical Presbyterian Junior High and Primary Schools in the South Dayi District of the Volta Region...

World Vision Encourage Communities to Stop Open Defecation

Ghana News Agency - Jan 11, 2019 0

World Vision International (WVI) has commissioned a solar mechanized water facility for the Tupint School and communities in the Tempane District in the Upper...

GAMA Project: Over 19,200 households to have access to toilet facilities.

Ike Dzokpo - Nov 8, 2018 0

Open defecation which is a major challenge hindering the economic growth in Ghana will soon become a thing of the past as the Ministry...

Edem Wages War Against Open Defecation.

Ike Dzokpo - Oct 16, 2018 0

Ghana's finest rapper Edem has taken another giant step by launching an end year festival dubbed: “Edemfest”. The event which was launched in Accra is...

Ghana media declare war on Open Defecation

Justice Lee Adoboe - Sep 20, 2018 0

A group of leading media houses seeking to push for an end to open defecation in Ghana launched their campaign here on Wednesday. The Media...

15 People Arrested by AMA Taskforce for Open Defecation

Ghana News Agency - May 13, 2018 0

The Sanitation Monitoring Taskforce of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has arrested some 15 persons for allegedly indulging in open urination and defecation. They are...

Stronger cooperation suggested to end Open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Apr 29, 2018 0

Ms Margeret Gwada, the Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Ghana, has said the pledge to end open defecation in the Upper East, Upper West...

16 Communities in Fanteakwa To Be Labelled As ODF Free

Ghana News Agency - Apr 27, 2018 0

World Vision Ghana will soon declare 16 communities in the Fanteakwa district Open Defecation Free (ODF) through the Community Lead Total Sanitation (CLTS) policy. Speaking...

Bongo District to stay committed to stopping open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Apr 25, 2018 0

The Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region has reaffirmed its commitment to ending open defecation across all communities in the District by...

Oguaa Traditional Council inaugurates taskforce to check open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Apr 12, 2018 0

As part of efforts to make Cape Coast open defecation free (ODF), the Oguaa Traditional Council (OTC) is setting up a task force to...

Chiefs charged to support the fight against open defecation

Ghana News Agency - Apr 9, 2018 0

Mrs Catherine Afeku, the Minister for Tourism, Creative Arts and Culture has called on traditional authorities particularly coastal communities to help in the fight...

Aboabo: Clean Team Ghana Fight to End Open Defecation

Ghana News Agency - Mar 30, 2018 0

Mr. Peter Townsley, out-going Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Clean Team Ghana, a sanitation-oriented company, has stressed the need for increased education campaign to...

Stakeholders in sanitation tasked to eliminate Open Defecation

ABK - Nov 24, 2017 0

Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister has tasked stakeholders in the Water and Sanitation sector to work hard to eliminate the problem of...

Open defecation engulf clinic in Wa

ABK - Nov 23, 2017 0

Open defecation has engulfed the Busa Community Clinic under Wa Municipal exposing the health of both patients and health personnel at the facility to...

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